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(Feel free to visit my personal homepage.)
I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin in 1985 and came to work in the Petroleum Engineering Department (now known as the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department) in early 1986. Currently, I'm working as a Computer Programmer. That's my official title. I was initially hired on a one-year contract to write a database for one of our simulators and my job grew from there to the chaos it is today. I can't imagine there are a whole lot of people working in the world with the wide variety of job duties I've been assigned. It's a job I actually like and it was all a fluke.
Anyway...for the most part, I primarily work with two faculty types assisting them with their research needs. I maintain several www pages associated with a couple of the research groups here in the department. The main web page I maintain is the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (CPGE) page.
This web stuff all started out as one of those "it's an emergency...we gotta have it now!" sorta things we had to do for DOE (you can still find that page archived here) back in January of 1995. The web maintenance stuff is only one of the many things I do around here. One of my primary duties is to generate graphics (for presentation and publication...all on my oh-so-trustworthy PowerMac). After the web work, I think that's my favorite thing to do around here. And, I'm good at it. I also act as general Macintosh and WindowsNT consultant (I still don't enjoy the Windows stuff much but I do it!), maintain a library of computer programs generated by the research groups mentioned above, write program documentation, and do various assorted other odd jobs (mostly computer-related, naturally).
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Oh wait...there's one more story: the story of why I had to change my email address.
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