My career path was determined by the clever prompting of my amazing 11th grade physics teacher. All he did was let me use his HP-25 calculator. It had 49 program steps! Think of the possibilities! The world suddenly became infinitely more interesting to me and I was hooked on programming. A two-week programming course the following summer at a university locked me in for good.

Writing Fortran programs on punch cards and running them on an IBM mainframe is not high on my list of things to do now, but at the time I thought it was fantastic. I subsequently spent three months of my paper route money on an HP-41C programmable calculator to feed my programming habit and never looked back.

Outside of software development, I play piano, play Ultimate, ski, bicycle, run, play with synthesizers, ride motorcycles, and read.