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title: "About"
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date: 2020-08-24T23:51:30-05:00
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### Who I Am
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I'm a dad, who lives in Texas. You might read and see a few things around here
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that tell you a little bit about those two things.
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I'm a software engineer, who works for Red Hat, Inc. You very likely will see
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and read a multitude of posts about that. But before I worked at Red Hat, I
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worked at SoftLayer (I was there when we were acquired by IBM). This gave
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me the double joy of having been at two consecutive companies that were acquired
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by IBM. Before SoftLayer I worked for ONE Network Enterprises - a supply chain
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software company based out of Dallas, TX. And, before that, as a full stack
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developer for bits and pieces here and there.
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### What I Was Taught
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I'm a graduate of Houghton College ('06, BA Religion) and the University of Texas
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Dallas ('09, MS Computer Science - Intelligent Systems).
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### What I've Learned
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I'm convinced that automation is the key to a sane life in front of the computer.
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Any software that can ease my way by doing things itself is to be praised. I
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love to use it, sometimes I'll even write about it. And I'll probably try to
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get you to use it, if you come too close!
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I'm convinced that most people are, fundamentally, good people. Even most of
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the people who have wronged you - if you knew their whole story, you would
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probably find that their actions and words are understandable and justifiable
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to them. Remember, "No one is the villain of their own story." So, instead of
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leaping to condemn or point fingers, start from a place of empathy. You might
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find that far more doors are open to you than are closed.
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