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volomike

Name: 
Mike McKee

I was formerly from Raleigh, NC, but now live and work in Johnsonville, SC, near Myrtle Beach and Conway. I moved here because I had an offer for free land and my wife grew up here. Unfortunately I was too optimistic on the economic climate within 100 miles of Johnsonville compared to Raleigh. I hope that improves. My first real job here was unfortunately an hour long commute.

In December 2007, at the age of 40, I felt tremendously underutilized, yet overworked on tasks I didn't like doing like filling out paperwork, doing security audits, sysop work, tech support, etc. at a Fortune 500 information technology company. I preferred web development, and particularly PHP development. Unfortunately my original job doing just that was outsourced. I was told to either take a tech support job or hit the streets. So, after only one year of development with that company, I worked 5 committed years doing Linux sysop work with still a good bit of PHP work in there. Eventually they overworked me and on my 6th year I resigned.

chruck

Name: 
Jās Eckard

Long-time Linux user, constantly learning. Passionate about Free Software and Open Source. Rabid member of Upstate Carolina Linux User's Group uclug.com . I also help out with the Southeast Linuxfest southeastlinuxfest.org .

By profession, I write software for Condrey Corporation to work on Linux. I love it!

I'm also a Lutheran Christian, a father, a very bad volleyball player, and a lover of Barbershop Quartet singing. I used to be a theatre and band geek.

But enough about me, how about you?

dmag

Name: 
Dan DeMaggio

I've just moved to the area, looking to meet geeks.

guz843

Name: 
Steve deGuzman

I am so fired up about BarcampCHS..

My first web project was in 1983 at the College of Charleston. We used SSH on a Commodore 64 and a local BBS to transmit the code for our app built in BASIC (I am looking for a Geek Certified badge).

http://okasaneko.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/commodore-64.jpg

In the late 90's I was blessed and able to live my dream by going on tour with a rock band. While doing so, I was introduced to several webmaster for a couple of start up bands called Days of the New, Tantric and Linkin Park. It was here that I was introduced to rich media and how it could be integrated with the web to produce sticky content. Did you know that both Tantric and Linkin Park launched their own independant street teams when they dropped their debut albums? It was through these bands I discovered the power of OS and how to leverage it across the Internet.

VIVA Apache!!!!

I was raised on MS-DOS 3.1 and I believe that the way to freedom is through Open Source.

Long live Open Source.

www.rehava.com

kennyab

Name: 
Kenny Abernathy

I received my first computer the Christmas of '83. It was a TI-99/4A, and I was 7 years old. I've been programming ever since. In high school I had the opportunity to program at NASA for a summer. It was there that Kernighan and Ritchie taught me what real programming was all about.

I received a BS in Computer Science in '97. I spent a year in the defence industry after that, followed by 5 years in telecommunications. I'm currently finishing up a PhD in Neuroscience at the Medical University of South Carolina, after which I'll be jumping back into the computer field full time.

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