I love technology; most of all, I love getting projects completed using the most appropriate technology.
I've been a "nerd" since my days at Syosset High School, where one of my classmates was the almost-Congresswoman Lois Murphy . (Commerce Secretary Elaine Chao graduated a bit before I did). I learned how to program computers (PDP-11s, in BASIC, along with a smattering of microcomputers) and to design analog and digital hardware. I was one of the nine winners of the 1979 Long island Science Congress (three winners each from North Nassau, South Nassau, and Suffolk) for a wireless temperature telemetry system, the transmitter of which was surgically implanted in a rat.
At Cornell University I continued pursuing my interest in Biomedical Engineering - Cornell did not have a Biomedical Engineering program at the time, nor did they have "minors" as a standard option, so I sucessfully petitioned into a program (the College Program) where I could create my own minor in neurobiology to compliment my major in Electrical Engineering. I worked and paid my own way through most of my time at Cornell; for several years I worked in the neurobiology lab of Dr. Ron Hoy, designing microcomputer-based test equipment.
Since graduating Cornell I've been involved in a number of fun opportunities, ranging from IC design to Web app design, both as a technologist and as a manager - I enjoy both roles. I particularly enjoy harnessing technology and processes to build high-reliability systems (e.g., medical, industrial, financial) in situations with measurable outcomes.
My wife, Marian Rambelle, was a Civil and Environmental Engineering student when we met at Cornell. Now she's moved from overseeing the cleanup of EPA Superfund sites to being a professional singer of opera and other classical music.
Our son, Ben (7), seems to have selected skateboarding, video games, and scaring the heck out of his parents as his profession, for now.