I’m not going to go crazy and do a full dating-website profile here, because there’s a time and a place for that kind of crazy, and this isn’t it.
Although I consider myself a Texan, as I’ve lived the vast majority of my life in the major metropolitan areas of the Lone Star State, I was actually born in the Netherlands, and I also spent a few of my formative years living in New Zealand.
I would like to take a moment to state that I am most certainly NOT the Australian Ross Cornell. If you find yourself reading this page from the continent of Australia, or even the surrounding south pacific environs, AND you are looking for a WordPress developer, you need to contact the Australian Ross Cornell.
So, if there is an ‘international man of mystery, minus the mystery’ vibe to my worldview, or the things I say or write, that may help explain.
After a thoroughly underwhelming (on my part – not on the part of those great teachers!) early education to high school experience in Houston, I attended Texas Christian University and graduated with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and Psychology.
You may ask yourself how a C.J./Psych major turns to a life of computers. Well, it’s a fairly simple explanation. In college, the computer science department was something new and unproven, and I never really gave it a thought. So, although computers had been in my life in some form or fashion since the early and mid-1980s (with the Apple IIe and our friend that says “
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After graduation, a brief stint as a private investigator convinced me that I wasn’t really interested in that type of career path. At the same time, a couple of friends were working at a software training facility and knew about my computer experience. They suggested I interview, and the rest is history.
With all of that information aside, I also think that one of my longtime hobbies also helped guide me to a life in technology: Music.
I’ve played French Horn on and off for more than two decades, currently with the Allen Community Band and Wylie Community Band. I’ve always thought that music performance in general is a wonderful combination of logic and rules, blended with the flexibility of artistry and expression.
And, after all these years of working with computers, from hardware to software to programming, the similarity of being bound by sets of rules and logic, with the freedom of expression to create solutions is often quite evident.