I went to college at
Ohio
University, in Athens Ohio, where I earned a B.S. in
Computer
Science with a minor in
Mathematics
in 1992. Along the way I worked for the Computer Science Department
by watching computer labs and doing odd jobs for our system
administrator. Between my junior and senior years I was an intern at
NASA Glenn Research Center.
During my senior year I was the President of the
Computer
Science Club.
While an intern at NASA, I made the
decision to attend grad school. I went to
Indiana
University to work on my M.S. degree at the
Computer Science Department. I sorta drifted
to operating systems and system architecture, which actually has been
a great benefit in my profession as a Unix Administrator. I graduated
from Indiana with a M.S. in Computer Science in 1994.
I left Bloomington Indiana with much
more than a paper diploma. I learned how to think out of the box,
time management, problem solving skills, open-mindness, how to work
with other people, and more importantly how to communicate with
people. Computer Science, or more simply working in the computer
field, is much more than knowing how to write an efficient program,
or how to translate a regular expression. It is working with other
people, talking with them, getting your point across, or yielding
one's stance in light of something that makes more sense. Holding
these values and building on them has greatly helped both my career
and the projects that I have participated in.
