I'm doing a major reworking of all these pages,
so things might look at bit odd during transition.
You can start with serious stuff, or if you like, go straight to the fun stuff.
If you have questions, comments, or just want to say 'hello', feel free to send emailzee@ugcs.caltech.edu
I'd be glad to hear from you.
I am a recent graduate from the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, California. I grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in a small town named Yarmouth.
I'm currently working for Competitive Automation, a small company in Menlo Park, whose main product is a proprietary DHCP server. As Tech Support Manager, I'm assisting customers nationwide who are generally system administrators for large corporations and universities. Previously I was working for a small company in Baltimore, Maryland, called System Source. I developed a customer account information system, which uses a Clipper and Perl script to take information from the company database and display it on the web.
My primary professional interest is mechanical engineering design, especially within the field of accident investigation and reconstruction. Failure Analysis Associates is a local company doing this sort of work.
My resume is available online, as well as a set of job descriptions. I have also put together a paragraph explaining my job preferences.
While I was out at school in California, I did a lot of coursework within the Divison of Geology and Planetary Sciences. Since I had a very wide range of interests, I also took classes from within the department of Engineering and Applied Sciences. My engineering interests were focussed in the area of Mechanical Engineering Design, until I eventually earned the degree of Bachelor of Science.
The highlight of my time at Caltech came during one particular course, ME72, the school's annual mechanical engineering design contest. Modelled after a similar course, MIT2.70 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, each student was given the task of designing and building a machine from a given set of materials, including several electric motors, bearings, fasteners, and sheets of fibreboard, aluminum, and lucite. Each machine had to perform a particular task and would compete against other students' machines in a well publicized contest at the end of the term. My machine came out undefeated among a field of 24 contestants.
Well...I'm not sure where to start. There are lots of different things that I like to do. I guess what's most important to me, regardless of whatever we might actually be doing, is to have a big group of fun, spontaneous people around to go and do 'randomness'. The name 'randomness' says it all: it doesn't matter what we're actually doing, as long as _we_ are having fun doing it. Hmm...so what sort of randomness do I like best? Well, I really like to travel and explore. Have a look at my list of fun places. I've already visited all the ones in the US, along with London and Montreal. It seems that the further north I am, the more pleased I am to be there. Juneau and the Mendenhall Glacier were WONDERFUL, especially walking _on_ the Glacier with Myfanwy. Another recent highlight was driving from Pasadena, CA to Cape Cod, MA with Samantha in a big old yellow International Travellall (210,000 miles on it!). Eventually I'd like to put together a page for each of the most extensive randomness trips I've done. Hey, if you bug me about it and send me email, maybe I'll get around too it that much faster! ok...well..for now you'll have to settle for a couple of lists of things I like. Have fun!
Here's a sample of fun people with neat Web pages.
Eventually I would like to get a house somewhere in New England, maybe near Boston, Massachusetts. I might be spending the next couple years in San Francisco, California. Here's my list of fun places, most of which I've visited, some of which I'd really like to visit eventually.