Although I love what I do, my accomplishments and abilities are much more than my current title suggests. I was originally trained as a graphic designer. Wanting to make the design process easier for my colleagues, I became a project manager and later a network manager, eventually building one of the earliest LANs for a design firm. This LAN was anchored by a filing system that I tailored to the environment and designed to be a natural extension of the work process. My computer interest took me to explore multimedia and 3D animation, working for a time on concepts of an early immersive computer game.
I live in a far northern suburb of Chicago with my wife and two children. All of us besides my son, play guitar. We don't believe we have to play well to have a good time. My daughter (and I) are in Brownies, surviving our first year of cookie sales.
Quick Facts
- I grew up in a large family and have six brothers and two sisters. I admire my parents but don't plan to duplicate their feat.
- My brother was recently the mayor of my hometown, Sycamore, IL. It's a place where a penny still gets you 12 minutes from the parking meter.
- The brother of my great-great-...great-grandfather was Captain John Parker, the leader of the Lexington Minuteman who said "if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."
- My cousin, Heidi, played George Costanza's fiance on the show Seinfeild. I never watched the show and only learned of her involvement after she “licked the stamp.”
- I have been a fry cook, a flower deliveryman, and a game developer.