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Used to be four guys, all former co-workers from a common company. Three of them ran out of time to contribute so it's me. In early October 2010 Scott joined up as well. He too ran out of time to contribute! Back to just me again

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What drives me? Innovation, strategic thinking, and value. Whether it's software, hardware, or even services. I think a lot, analyze a lot, and as you'll quickly see provide information overload on my thoughts.

I do hope you get some useful information from this site. I find it most useful personally to get thoughts out, and when I'm interacting with someone on a topic I wrote about I can direct them here to read my background on it, as sometimes I can't remember every aspect, and providing things in written form make it easier for people to absorb, refer, and reference.

I have a fairly broad background of experience spending significant amounts of time building and supporting servers, storage as well as networking. I wouldn't mark myself as the best of the best in any of those fields but I do gravitate towards products and technologies that allow me to accomplish more with less. I would get bored if I focused in on one area only. Five years ago on a big project the project manager who had a background working at Sun Microsystems, told me people like me at Sun were called Enterprise Architects. That had a nice ring to it and I believe I have grown even more into that role over the years since.