My Bio

I was raised in Westerville, Ohio, a town known most famously for being the national headquarters for the Anti-Saloon League during Prohibition a century ago. During my formative years, I played a somewhat better than mediocre clarinet in the high school band and was in the high school production of South Pacific, but as a general rule I didn’t offend or make an impression on anyone. Sadly, the first eighteen years of my life can summarized into this three sentence paragraph.

Because Dad bleeds scarlet and gray, I attended The Ohio State University and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Science in 1984. Due largely to academic inertia, I received a Master’s degree in the same subject the following year. After a career that spanned punch cards to AI coding agents, I have retired from software development and don’t appear to miss the grind.

Somewhere along the line, I got a life. I think it was some afternoon in October of 1988. Had I to do it all over again, I would have gotten a little incorrigible a whole lot sooner. As I like to quantify everything, the Keirsey Temperament Sorter indicates I have an ISTJ (Inspector) personality. Tickle.com (now defunct) determined that I was a Visionary Philosopher. TheSpark.com’s (also defunct) Personality Test says I’m an SICT (Accountant) personality. And in eighth grade, a guidance counselor said I had the personality to be a garbage collector.

In late 1992, I met my match. I married by my wife, Chris, in the Spring of 1994. Shrubbery, real furniture, and stencil borders in the kitchen arrived soon after. I also married into fur: we have a cat, Bam Bam Dino Misty Cooper CiCi. We live in central Ohio, where we have settled into suburban domesticity without much angst. In 1998, my wife and I adopted two baby girls, one from Vietnam and one from China. A third was adopted in 2003. Our daughters kept us young until they had the audacity to become independent women and move out of the house.

Recently, my wife and I have gotten in euro-style board games, playing with our friends, former co-workers, or relatives. I bring a tub of games and teach them to whoever can tolerate me for an evening.

During the warmer months of the year, I alternate between being a slow cyclist or hiker. Currently I’m training for a fall 2026 trip to hike the Inca Trail in the Andes mountains of Peru to Machu Picchu.