I am the Director of Development in charge of Architecture/Infrastructure for Healthvision.  Up until about 9 months ago, I was a Consulting Engineer (or, what I liked to call "head geek") for that team before I made the leap into management.

I'm a total bit-head, having started playing around with computers in 6th grade on a TRS-80 Model I in school.  I didn't have my own computer until 9th grade when I got a Timex-Sinclair and a Commodore VIC-20.  It didn't take me long to be bored with Basic, Pilot and Forth, so I taught myself 6502 Assembly language in 10th grade. (Suddenly the games I wrote were a lot faster - imagine that!)

I went to school for Biomedical Computing at Rochester Institute of Technology, and have been programming in the healthcare industry ever since. I learned quickly, though, that I don't like to be writing applications - I like to do the nuts and bolts underneath. The way I prefer it, if you can actually see something I wrote on the screen, I probably have a bug.

In school, I fell in love with a language called MUMPS and used that for years until Java came along.  Ah, the wonders of objects. I was primarily a Java developer when I joined Healthvision, but we were having trouble finding enough programmers, so we (unfortunately) trained a lot of people on ASP and VB.  The only good thing that came out of that was it brought me back into the world of Microsoft technologies in time to discover an early beta of .NET.  I've been hooked ever since.

I am currently in charge of the effort to convert our infrastructure (first) and our applications (next) from ASP/VB6 to ASP.NET/C# on a very fast timeline, while simultaneously training our staff on solid architectural design (and un-learning the bad habits of typical ASP developers).  To do this, I need a bunch of .NET Rock Stars in the Dallas, TX area. If you fit that description, email me.