About
Name: J.
Age: 28
Occupation: Software Engineer
The History
Personal
I grew up and attended school on the east coast. I am on the left side now. I honestly like it much more here. I chug coffee like no-one’s business. None of that starbucks junk though.. no no, please, not for me sorry. I have ridden motorcycles for many years and I work on them in my spare time as well. If I could, that is what I would do 24/7. Ride and work on bikes. That does not pay the bills though.
Work Ethic
I have been called a workaholic (wow safari did not yell spellcheck on workaholic?) a number of times.
(..citing reviews given to me by employers..)
I am a “hard worker” with a “let’s go get em” energy, and a“cut through the BS, straight to the point personality”, who is “great on a team or leading it”. I apparently have a “bulldog attitude” and I “stick around until the job is done, even after everyone else has long left for the day and given up”.
What do I have to say about that?
I just try to never miss a deadline and make sure that I deliver. I will work myself to the bone to make sure things are done. Just treat me right and I will treat you right. I ask to be treated as a person that solves problems, not an assembly line worker. Being an artist is the same thing, you can not be pushed to produce. It has to come. Being a problem solver means that you have to think creatively. Thinking creatively requires the right gears to turn in the right order. If you push the gears, they are going to break. Just let them turn, they will turn themselves. note: gears do not turn in a suit and tie
Personal Tech Related History
I have been a looong time mac user. Starting with my Mac LCII. I grew up using a diverse range of equipment since both of my parental units worked in the computer field. Guess I got lucky that way. I remember one time a friend of mine came over in grade school. ( I used to frequent BBS’s and even ran my own off Wildcat, then switched to Renegade. ;) ) Well, when I said, look, we are going to call out and connect to these other computers. He said “WOW! YOU MEAN LIKE IN THE MOVIES?!?!” . About that time, I realized 99% of people had no idea about these things. I was the kid that was carrying a laptop to school in 1990, and getting in trouble for messing with the payphones. I started on Commodore/Atari machines, moved to an 8080-6 then 8080-8, then 286 to 486, and the rest is history with Sun, NeXT and Apple, VAX, UNISYS, and IBM 400 series machines mixed in all over. Hell, I even worked with Microsoft XENIX.. XENIX became SCO-UNIX (bet you never knew that Microsoft made a Unix variant eh? I have never been a fan of windows though). I tried BeOS for a while and found it great, very fast and stable but just hella un-supported and kind of a bastardized BSD. Plan 9 from Bell Labs? Used it for nearly a year. I ran two boxes on it. QNX? Yep. I ran QNX for about 4 years, until it stopped being fun anymore. I even wrote a whole bunch of photon apps to get things done that I wanted to do, since they did not exist. Mostly though, I used BSD and then FreeBSD as my desktop for many many years, until the time that MacOSX came out.
Employment History
If you are intending to work with me, and would like a copy of my resume or employment history, please email me at mrfrench {at} frenchmoustache.com. I can not list much of my employment information publicly due to legal and clearance reasons from organizations that have employed me.
Languages and tools I use to build fun things:
Lately though it seems to be more ruby then anything else….
