Biography

Son of professors, I grew up in university towns, graduating from Lawrence High and KU. I spent the late seventies in San Francisco where I caught the computing bus by accident, it was supposed to have been Law. I have been associated with KU's computer center since the mid-eighties, though I took a ten year vacation in the nineties. I spent that time in part at a PBS outlet in a consortium to provide internet services to libraries and NGO's. I also did a stint in a public/private consortium to bring internet services in the western high plains that everyone walked away from happy. Both ventures filled needs when people were fumbling with "that internet thing." I served as chief cook and bottle washer in both instance, as director of technical operations. I have worked with machines from Osborne 01's to SGI O2's on the desktop, was a NeXT campus rep and have experience with IRIX to ESX. My group supports PeopleSoft, Exchange, Blackboard, Voyager, Luna Insight, Xythos, SAS BI, ImageNow and a host of others. I have a wife named Shelley, three cats, play rock and roll and folk guitar and keyboards, tinker with a 1972 MG, raised five kids, none, thank goodness, still at home. .