About
I have always had the drive to create useful and efficient software.
(A brief) Personal History
I’ve been interested in creating software since grade school when they introduced us to the Commodore PET computers in the early 1980s. From there I “graduated” to the IBM XT personal computer a few years later. Not to brag, but it had TWO 5 1/4” floppy drives — granting me the limitless power of leaving DOS 1.0 in one drive while I saved my data to the other, avoiding having to constantly switch floppies in just the usual single disk drive.
From there, I continued to love creating software. From tracking and visualizing the acceleration and velocity of a penny being dropped from the Empire State Building for high school physics class, to games such as Lucky Shot and Protacatron – while their distribution and promotion was limited to my house, friends and family thought they were pretty cool.
One of my favorite stories has the backdrop of me as a high schooler presenting one of my games at a New Jersey Institute of Technology software convention in 1987. My Dad and I were there along with hundreds of other developers and their creations. About 20 feet from my setup, was a western “shoot ‘em up” game which played a line from Jon Bon Jovi’s Wanted Dead or Alive (a very cool accomplishment for the time), every 120 seconds for 8 hours straight – “I’m a cowboy…on a steel horse I ride, wanted…waaaanted, dead or alive”. To this day I smile every time I hear that song, and of course, that’s my father’s ringtone.