My Profile
Born and raised in Chicago. Presently living in Oxford, UK. My day-job is tech. I Love Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Aristotle, Plato, the Cubs, Linux, Atari 8 Bit, and Amateur Radio.
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Long Version
I was born in Chicago in 1967, to working class parents of mixed Irish and French Canadian heritage. My father was an electrician, my mother was a homemaker, and I was a reliably average Chicago public school student.
After a brief period of community college transience after high school, I began a ground-floor career in tech that continues today. I have worked in an extremely wide variety of roles, from production printer operator, to network operations, to unix systems administration, to desktop systems support, to enterprise systems automation, to software test engineering. I have worked in a wide variety of technical environments, from enterprise mainframes, to distributed cloud platforms, to co-located startup systems.
My personal interests are classical music, Greek philosophy, computer programming, and amateur radio. I have performed as an amateur choral tenor with civic choruses in Waukegan, Dartmouth, and London. I had a General Class FCC license for many years (callsign KB9ZYW), but due to present life circumstances I decided to let it expire. More recently, I received second prize in the Oxford Philosophical Society Tony Chadwick essay contest. It is published in the 2018 Annual Review. Also, after many years in and out of various university programs, I finally received my complete education in philosophy: both a Bachelor and Masters degree from the Birkbeck school at the University of London.