About me    |    My wife Heather    |    The Job    |    The Computer    |    My Resume    |    Friends        New House          About me   I graduated from NC State University with a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering on May 10, 1997. Upon graduation (actually before graduating), I started as a contractor with Maxim Group on April 28, 1997. I was working in a group called Nortel Information Network where some of my friends already worked doing UNIX system administration stuff in supporting ISPs. After 6 months of working for the contracting company (AKA the "pimps"), I went full time with the same group and became a full time Northern Telecom (Nortel) employee. I continued doing UNIX system operations stuff but branched into network operations. I gained some experience here and moved to doing more network engineering work. The experience in the system administration and network operations/engineering was very helpful but I decided it was time to move on. The group was in the process of being sold and I didn't like who the new owners were going to be or how they ran their business. I left to go to a network operations job at AT&T Solutions and have liked the job there. Hopefully, I will move on to network engineering stuff over at AT&T. One nice benefit to going back to network engineering is working days and not doing rotations.     On a more personal note, I met my love, Heather, when she was visiting NC State before coming full time from ASU. We started dating about a month later and got married in September 1998. We went to Seattle for the honeymoon and it was wonderful, if it wasn't so far away, I would ponder moving out there. Heather has a little dog, a teacup Yorkshire Terrier that is about 4lbs. It is a little dog that just seems to run and run and run around more. At least it is small, since I am not exactly a lover of animals. But it makes Heather happy, so it is worth it.