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. Having mastered the art of crossing a busy street, I worked at Chemical Abstracts Service, which was just north of campus, after graduation. I am currently employed as a Principle Engineer at Nice, doing Go development mostly. I enjoy my work, but more importantly my co-workers.

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 tad more obnoxious 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 to think 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 have gotten in euro-style board games, playing with our friends, 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 am a slow cyclist usually doing a handful of organized rides each year. No racing, just touring. I started riding the week long camping and biking GOBA tour decades ago and for a few years rode with my daughters. They have moved on; I haven’t. I have also ridden Pelotonia and have raised tens of thousands of dollars for cancer research.