About Meme

Posted: January 5th, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Archive, Systematic Viewpoints | No Comments »

Dubs tagged me, so here’s 5 things you don’t know:

  1. In a field crowded with HR cyclists, I’m another. A long time ago, after many years as a customer I was invited to be a guest leader with Vermont Bicycle Touring. For a few seasons I got pay plus tips to spend a week on inn-to-inn tours during autumn foliage, riding half days and driving the sag wagon the other half. Nearly left my day job.
  2. My degree is in Commercial Art, from the pre-PC era. I was an Art Director for almost 20 years. I specialized in large catalog production and got involved in online commerce (on Compuserve, showing my age again) in the late ’80s. By the time the web got popular I was spending as much time with systems as designing. I made the formal transfer to development management in 1998.
  3. I learned to code on a Univac 1108 in 1973. Punch cards, paper tape, Teletypes with acoustic coupler modems and no displays.
  4. New York City is my favorite place.
  5. Late in the last century I swore that I’d never work on PeopleSoft systems again. And yet…

I’ll tag brazenindustriousness, Romulus and Rich.