Welcome to my blog, a little place on the internet that I write about various Microsoft Technologies (Technology category and sub categories) and my quest to become an Ironman in 2010 (Fitness category).

This is my 3rd, and longest running attempt at blogging. My first blog, part of my DotNetNuke install ran from 2004 until 2005, in which I had maybe 10 posts. My second blog was internal to my employer, but I eventually moved all of the content to this, my 3rd blog, and have been posting pretty regularly since the end of 2006.

My ongoing inspiration for blogging, is Scott Hansleman’s blog, which I started reading sometime in 2004. While Scott’s blog is my inspiration, I have not gotten to the point of putting out the same level of quality that Scott does.

My blog has been a place to store interesting information online, for me to reference in the future by googling, binging my site. I find myself posting to Twitter allot of stuff that would have normally ended up on my blog as short posts, so hopefully I’ll be able to post higher quality content going forward. It’s definitely a work in progress though. If you look at my Conference Notes you’ll see a mix of raw notes and somewhat edited posts mixed together.

Tech

I am an 8 year veteran of .Net and related Microsoft Technologies and currently a Senior Software Engineer at Terso Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Promega Corporation. I am responsible for just a little bit of everything at Terso, from participating on the Scrum team as a architect, developer, tester and business analyst, to helping out with the management of Terso’s backend infrastructure.

I am an active member with the Madison .Net Users Group, which meets on the first and 3rd Wednesday of each month at Herzing College on Madison’s east side. The first meeting is your typical one person presentation on a given topic. The second meeting is an open forum where anyone can come and talk to anyone who will listen. If you a a Microsoft Developer, or any type of technology professional, I encourage you to check us out.

I enjoy living on the cutting edge of technology, and am constantly looking for new technical solutions for business problems (maybe too much so). If you know where I can find my dream job, let me know ;)

Picture Source: Scott Hanselman’s Blue Badge Post

Non-Tech

I live in Oregon, just south of Madison with my my very lovely and understanding wife Jennifer, and our two feline friends Candy and CJ. My wife uses the same picture below on FaceBook, so I shouldn’t get into to much trouble posting it here.

My loving and supporting wife	CJ on the left and Candy on the right

In 2010, I will be training to compete in Ironman Wisconsin (ImMoo) as part of the Endurance House becoming an Ironman team (paid training program). I started in Triathlon in 2009 with the goal of gaining experience for ImMoo.

I also play roller hockey when I have the chance, and played a little bit of recreational Ice Hockey while I was going to school. I’ve done paintball and airsoft in the past as well, and spent 7 years playing Laser Storm laser tag across the country.