So, ... I grew up in Foxborough, Massachusetts, about two miles from the New England Patriot's Stadium. I have been playing soccer since I was five, and am still suffering the embarresing losses of the US in the '98 World Cup recently. I enjoy hiking, biking, camping and cruising around this state exploring for new sights. Next year I intend to take a good four to six weeks off, and travel to Europe (for my first time). Exploration of Iceland to start, along with Norway, Sweden and Denmark will be a main focus, following closely my love of the Scandinavian Viking histories. With that in mind, there is actually a ton to see in Iceland. South of the Baltic is in the plans, Germany, Poland, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, and if I can plan it right, meet up with my great friend Antoa at his place in Portugal. I may not do these countries in the above order though. So that's me, pretty standard stuff.

During college, I majored in Chemistry and Environmental Science. If I had taken Latin I would have nailed down Biology and Classics minors, but oh well. I see them as subject matter outside the computer realm I can talk about when I don't want to talk about computers (which is most of the time outside of work it seems - unless I have nothing else in common with the person). It's good to know I could dump computers and go back to a chem lab and be perfectly happy though. That, or learn Danish and Icelandic and start to really understand the civilization of 8th -12th century Scandinavia. Just a thought if I get sick of all the high tech stuff...hard to do I suppose in Silicon Valley though. After college I moved to California. Here I've been for just shy of 3 years, worked for 15 months at a Virtual Reality software company, Sense8, then moved on to Asset Factory, a silicon valley venture capital startup, which we sold 10 months after incorporating to Newtek. I came in prior to its founding to build out all the technical systems: the renderfarm of 60+ CPUs across 25+ machines on my network, the Internet presence, web servers, firewalls, email, that sort of thing. Plus all the other things one must do in a startup company, which is usually alot. The skinny was that Newtek destroyed us quickly after the bought us and in March, 1999, I was hired on as the 5th employee of ChemConnect. I built out our network and server infrastructure and continue to do so today. ChemConnect rocks! That's all. Done. Back To The Home Page