This is where I collect the boring stories about my life, by superficial observations of the Human Condition, and other stuff like that, stuff that only makes sense after midnight and you're feeling meloncholy.
I was unemployed from July 6, 2007 to May 4, 2009. The following text is from my main web page back then.
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July 6, 2007 was my last day of employment at Merit Network Inc.. I left on very good terms, including a bonus for helping to shutdown the Shared Dial-in Service. After taking some time off to take care of my kids, clear my head from working for the same organization for 22 years, and as a vacation (my first real vacation in years), I am now looking for employment within 45 minutes travel of the Ann Arbor, Michigan area. |
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I could have timed this better — after starting my job hunt, I blundered for a few months with a poor resume. I then discovered that nobody hires between Thanksgiving and New Years. Eventually, I managed to post my resume somewhere where someone took enough interest in me to help me polish my resume, and then someone else helped, and so on. |
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Is there anyone looking for a skilled Unix (Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, AIX) TCP/IP network programmer (C and Perl) involved in authentication, accounting and authorization (AAA) with good "people skills"? |
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Merit Network, Inc. underwent multiple rounds of layoffs and RIFs starting around 2003. Out of concern for my own prospects, I started collecting information about jobs in Information Technology in December 2004. I lost energy for pursuing this when my wife of 14 years told me she wanted a divorce in March of 2005. On May 2006, there was another round of layoffs at Merit, and I began making the information I collected available here.. Finally, I got laid off myself. |
My last official title was Client/Server Programmer — Senior, (previously Systems Research Programmer III.) I've been a software engineer with a networking and authentication & authorization focus for years.