What do I really do?
I am the alpha geek at a very small market research firm somewhere around the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Like all alpha geeks, I walk around my turf, beating my chest, hollering and showing my crooked teeth at the slightest hint of any lesser geek trying to thread into my territory. It is a hell of a lot of fun for me, but not a lot of fun for the lesser geeks that try me.
Officially I am the senior web applications developer, but since now there�s two of is I am the programming manager, director of technology, etc. In reality, as it happens in most small businesses, I have to switch roles depending on the need. This means that at any given time I may be the senior developer (just last week I subscribed to one of those free magazines for geeks and in the �title� box I typed �se�or developer�), the CTO, the CIO or just the computer guy. My second in command is probably about to crash into my office so I won�t say too much about him here.
I am a former card-carrying Microsoft dot-whore, and even if I switched to OS X some 3 years ago, I am still trying to exorcise our company from the windows demons. It was not too hard, since all of our employees work from Macs, and except for two Windows 2000 servers everything else is either freeBSD or Mac OS, plus a couple Linksys NSLU2�s.
In my off time I watch too much damn CSI, plus 24, The Shield plus most of whatever HBO shows on Sunday nights. I also like digital photography and movies. I am also the leader of the raging band of misfits in Undernet�s #asp that refuse to help anyone that is still learning ASP 3.0.
