About
In 1995 I was a cosmopolitan American businessman living and working in Europe. That summer, however, I returned to California, whereupon I was soon sporting cowboy boots, Levis work shirts and a flat top haircut. I drive around in a 1966 Chevy El Camino, and listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd CDs at night. I drink a lot of beer, and subscribe to Hot Rod. I grew a beard. I got a tattoo. I procured a shitload of guns.
Inexplicably, I had transformed almost overnight into an Urban Redneck.
How we got here
I am a California native who graduated from Dana Hills High School, in south Orange County, in 1980. I went to Cal State for a couple years, and also studied graphic arts and programming at night at local junior colleges. In the early stages of a career in pre-press production, I suddenly lateralled, in 1985, into data communications sales and marketing, where I remained until getting out of the game in 2000.
During the intervening period, I had the pleasure of working for and with some of the finest people in the industry in over thirty countries, finally wrapping up a five year stint with Cisco Systems by going to work for a dotcom startup in Brussels called Reef. That lasted a year, and since returning (again!) to California I have been running a small manufacturer of accessories for tactical shotguns.
I love animals; am a voracious (but slow) reader; harbor unlikely leftist views on many subjects; embrace free markets; am a shameless booster for my hometown of Costa Mesa; remain strangely fascinated by history, automobile engines and firearms; and walk to work whenever I can.
Colophon
This site is based on the Textpattern open source content management system. I designed the site myself. I know it doesn’t look like much, but I prefer to keep things simple, especially when dealing with CSS. At least it’s a variable width design that actually works. If you are interested in that sort of thing you can check out the CSS.
The elements of this site were derived from HTML pages hosted beginning in 1995 on Volant Turnpike and Earthlink.net, as well as in the ozyman directory of employees.org.