Skills

Some perspectives on my technology background


Playing Sneakers on an Apple II+ with separate color and green screens!

My experience with technology spans from proficiency in standard office software tools to selling Apple / Windows software at retail to running a small business where I built dozens of computers from the ground up after specifying the motherboards, graphics, multimedia, network cards, etc...then selling the software and services to complete the solution. From MS-DOS / PC-DOS to the many flavors of Windows, Apple too.

I also owned an Apple Power Mac G4 which was part of a music home studio. Prior to this, I was a frequent user of Compuserve and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) such as PC Board, Searchlight, Wildcat! I even maintained a publicly distributed list that tracked all the latest versions of shareware software that could be found online as well as beta testing of various shareware software programs as provided by authors -- Latest Versions List / LVL.

1st tablet: Toshiba Portege 3500 tablet computer w/ Windows XP Tablet edition - 2003! Sold for ~$40 in 2012
Current tablet: 2012 Google Nexus 7 tablet with ~150 apps loaded (Laptop replacement on some trips!)
Current laptop: 2014 HP Envy x360 15.6" - Core i7, 500 GB SSHD / 6GB RAM, 1920x1080, Win 8.1 64

This website is self-designed and coded. CSS menu system, external CSS style sheets, PHP scripting, with integrated CSS3, DHTML, Javascript, AJAX, and jQuery plugins for special effects. Currently in the process of creating a fully responsive version of the website with Bootstrap / Foundation framework.