I have been a technology enthusiast since the age of 7. Having lived through the steady progression of computer generations, I grew up along side technology and witnessed its evolution. My first PC was a Seequa Chameleon with a 9 inch green monochrome screen and two 5.25 inch floppy drives. This was in 1983 and it was x86 and CP/M compatible, running a 8088 Intel processor and a Z80 processor. At that time both were popular and ran simple DOS based operating systems.
The years following I custom built my own computers from sourced parts, the exception being my beloved Amiga computers in the early 90′s. I ran several BBS’s (Bulletin Board Systems), a precursor to the internet, throughout the 90′s. I remember the successive increases in speed from my first 1200 baud Prometheus modem to my glorious US Robotics 14.4K Courier HST. By 1994 I was on the internet and developing my first website: www.comicshow.com for a company called Great Eastern Conventions. I was their graphic designer doing print advertising for magazines and mailings. By the mid-to-late 90′s I was working as an IT consultant for AT&T; Creative Services. We were experimenting with early versions of streaming media and video compression. This is also around the time I fell in love with Linux and UNIX like operating systems. I ran most of my servers for web development on LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) systems. From 2000-2010 I more or less settled into web and internet consulting, building websites, VOIP telephony servers, email systems, web and database systems.
My background with graphic arts, programming and networking was an ideal fit for settling into a creative solutions provider career with my main focus on web technologies.
