{"id":2,"date":"2022-09-27T02:15:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T02:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eventualconsistency\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-09-28T23:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T23:59:43","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eventualconsistency\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/6098\/files\/2022\/09\/MGM_0987_Small.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17\" width=\"183\" height=\"124\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My first contact with computers was around the time PCs became available. A young teenager at the time, I had the fortune that my dad owned a business and let me &#8220;play&#8221; with the computer after hours. Soon after, I had a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commodore_64\">Commodore 64<\/a> and learned BASIC and MOS 6510 assembly languages. Later, I upgraded to a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commodore_128\">C-128<\/a> and eventually an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amiga_1000\">Amiga<\/a>, on which I learned C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In those years I was fascinated by electronics more than software, so I enrolled in an Electrical Engineering program at the local university, but never finished it. Yet the training I got there steered my eventual software career toward embedded systems. I still get a kick from writing code that then manifests in tangible physical ways through lights, video, and actuators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I work as a software engineering consultant, which simply means that I don&#8217;t like being stuck in one place and instead am hired to help teams solve problems and get projects moving forward. It is a fun job!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my non-work time, I love to spend time with my family, tackle small hardware \/software projects, and do woodworking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first contact with computers was around the time PCs became available. A young teenager at the time, I had the fortune that my dad owned a business and let me &#8220;play&#8221; with the computer after hours. Soon after, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eventualconsistency\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12856,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eventualconsistency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eventualconsistency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eventualconsistency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eventualconsistency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eventualconsistency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eventualconsistency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eventualconsistency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eventualconsistency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}