So… I’m a technology guy. I’ve been at this professionally for about 25-30 years now. My first computer was what my dad brought home when I was at the end of 3rd grade. It was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4a Home Computer. Eventually we got a tape drive to hook up to it, got the Speech Synthesizer, the Expansion Systems, some 5 1/4 inch floppies and then eventually upgraded to a MASSIVE 5MB hard drive you had to park when you were done with it. At some point I had a TRS-80 Model III and then an 8088 PC Clone and various versions of it with the turbo buttons…. 80286… 386…486… Pentium… Pentium Pro… several other various version all the way to modern Xeon and other technology systems.
Along the way I picked up a variety of hobbies which turned into learning to program Microchip PIC32 microcontrollers, Arduinos and various other things. That got applied to the “Coffee Roasting” above when I built my own coffee roaster controller. Eventually this leads to me being an advisor to an espresso machine being designed after the failure of the ZPM Espresso machine kickstarter failure. A bunch of us were sitting around talking about why it didn’t work out and how you actually do it enough that someone actually started to build one based on some of our discussion. I ended up with Decent Espresso DE1Pro machine #6!
Anyway after working technology in a variety of industries:
- Veterans Service Organizations
- Records Management/Retention
- Major Computer manufacturer
- Test Equipment manufacturing (phone, cellular, data, etc)
- Aerospace components manufacturing
- Major International Hotel headquarters
- HMO/Health Care
- Federal Government (EOP OA IST)
- Community Banking
A few years ago I earned my CISSP and I’ve been spending a lot of my time advising people how to protect themselves, their family, and teaching Information Security Awareness topics. So most of my day involves “what did you click” or “don’t click that”
