I was just selected as an Advisor in the Enterprise Software category. I take special pride in that recognition because I am self-taught. I have 8 years of experience in professional web development.... if you don't believe me, my first email address was lee@aol.com... I am a grandfather of network computing at the ripe old age of 30 ;-)
I want people to know, especially parents, that computer games like Doom and Quake were the fuel to my fire to learn networking... That was why my first 4 node network was a 9600 baud serial connection with TCP/IP and IPX running on it... It was expressly implemented to fight buddies in Doom... File sharing, internet sharing, and printer sharing were "bunuses"...
Advice to parents: Be active in understanding the games that your children play and more importantly, WHY they like them... There was alot of carnage in Doom, but the reason I liked it was the multiplayer aspect, and the reward of feeling like you had accomplished something by setting it all up and compeeting on your little network monster. Rather that denying your kids from playing games, try being active in helping them find ones you can approve of, or understanding why they like the ones that they do... There are MILLIONS of gamers out there, and only a few idiots shooting up schools... Even within the carnage of Quake III, there are valuable lessons to be learned that apply (more now than ever) to the work force...
Teaming, Purpose, Humility, Respect, Hierarchy and understanding where you fit in.... and more importantly, working to change it... That does not even touch the technical pieces like Networks, Netmasks, MAC Addresses, workgroups, IP's, and the list goes on... I would go so far as to say, if a person, regardless of age, single handedly built and configured a network with two computers to a degree that they could connect a game of Quake III, they are worth a minimum of $35K. $45K if they can connect more than 2, and $55K if they can set it up do configure new nodes automatically (DHCP).
I am currently a technology executive, CTO, for a financial service company. I have also done my time at IBM in enterprise web deployment. I enjoy Linux and Unix parallel computing and distributed computing platforms, and artificial intelligence...(Also game related...) I still monkey around with my website, www.carrollton-ga.com, which is a local portal to businesses in my home town... I have operated it since 1996.
Last but not least, I LOVE COMMENTS ABOUT MY REVIEWS!!! Good or bad, they let me know how I am doing! Keep them comming!
Peace,
Lee
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