If you think you might know who I am, and even if you don't, the following brief biography of my life so far may help:
| When | Where | What |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | I am born. |
| 1975 - 1984 | Zambia | I lived in Zambia with my missionary parents and went to Sakeji School.
Shirley-Anne, Ted and Nigel join the family. |
| 1984 - 1987 | Ajax, Ontario | Did grades five through seven at Lincoln Avenue Public School.
Chrissie joins the family. |
| 1987 - 1991 | Pakistan - Murree, Lahore and Karachi | A different field of service for my parents. I attended Murree Christian School. |
| 1991 - 1996 | Pickering, Ontario | I did my final year of high school at Pickering High School then did a degree in Computer Science at the Scarborough college of the University of Toronto. |
| 1996 - 1997 | Ottawa, Ontario | For my first "real job" I worked for the computer systems department of the Human Resources Ministry of Canada's federal government. |
| 1998 - 1999 | Toronto, Ontario | I did a short stint as a Y2K consultant for Xerox then worked as a software developer for Adexa, then known as Paragon Management Systems. |
| Dec. 1999 - Easter 2000 | Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Australia, New Zealand | I traveled around the world. |
| June 2000 - December 2001 | Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada | I worked as a software developer for Octopus Wireless, a small startup company that developed sales automation software for Palm handhelds. |
| January 2002 - January 2004 | I ran my own Zope hosting consulting company, Lane Street Labs. | |
| February 2004 - July 2005 | I worked for Lowry Digital Images as a software developer. | |
| July 16, 2005 | Maria and I got married!! I highly recommend marriage! ;) | |
| August 2005 - June 2006 | Seoul Foreign School, Seoul, South Korea | I worked remotely (very remotely!) for DTS (formerly Lowry) Digital Images, flying back occasionally to HQ in Burbank, California. Maria worked as high-school teacher at SFS. |
| June 2006 - January 2007 | Burbank, California | Worked as an on-site software engineer for DTS Digital Images. |
| February 2007 - June 2009 | Worked as a software engineer for Ixia. | |
| July 2009 - December 2010 | Irvine, California | Worked as a software engineer for PIMCO. |
| January 2011 - present | Melbourne, Australia | Moved to the Land Down Under where I work as a freelance software engineer. See my business website, Wombat Software, for details. |
My parents are Ray and Terry, and my siblings are Shirley-Anne, Ted, Nigel and Chrissie.