• Professional Application & Database Developer and Administrator with more than 15 years experience in application development, support and maintenance, mostly on the Microsoft .Net framework and Sql Server with just a little Oracle and *nix thrown in for flavor.
• Licensed Amateur Radio Radio Operator since 2004.
• National Weather Service Trained Storm Spotter.

O'Reilly, Manning, Packt, and Amazon probably saved me from becoming a candidate for the reality show "Hoarding, Buried Alive" when they came out with the Kindle Fire HD. When you consider how large most of those "Teach Yourself X" type books are I'm certain I am personally responsible for saving at least one tree with my growing reference library of 151 eBooks at last count.