I am a lifelong programmer, a systems architect who has been in the business for about 30 years. I am a languages geek, the sort of person who likes learning a new language every few months. (Current favorite is Scala.)

I'm currently bootstrapping a startup called Querki, which provides a wiki's ease of use to simple database applications. That is currently in Beta, at https://www.querki.net/

Historically, the main focus of my career has been social tools; I've been doing primarily online interactive tools pretty much since the advent of the Web. Interesting examples:

• A chat client, written as a native plugin in Netscape 2.

• An interactive multimedia educational MUD (built for the DoD, of all things), during the Netscape/IE 3 generation.

• Worked on two A-list videogames: Thief and System Shock 2. Did all of the multiplayer for the latter game.

• Worked on an early co-browsing product, Buzzpad, just before the dotcom meltdown. (Still nothing as good on the market today.)

• Wrote the middleware (and much of the front end) for an early easy-to-use webconferencing system named ASAP.

• Built a couple of iterations of my own garage startup, CommYou, a powerful online conversation system. Shut that down when Google Wave came along, since it had a number of very similar ideas. Might yet bring that back since Google completely messed up the rollout of Wave, and I want the capabilities.