Unemployed and looking for work

Like many people I am out of work and looking for a job. I was last employed October 2006 at Apple Computer, now Apple, Inc. I was living in Silicon Valley but now find myself in East Contra Costa County in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

I spent over five years at Apple and an additional six years at Global Village Communication as a Quality Assurance engineer and supervisor. I tested personal Wi-Fi connectivity hardware and their associated software, Wi-Fi access points, and modems. I've also been a software QA Engineer for an end-to-end Windows-based troubleshooting prediction and software update notification system. Before that I spent several years in retail and retail management.

Please download and view my cover letter and PDF resume here (16 KB). The letter explains some of what happened to me after October 2006.

What is . . .?

What's a Dead Dog Party? Sounds gross!

Back in my old science fiction and comic con days, a dead dog party was the last scheduled event of a 3 or 4 day fan convention. The purpose was what we call in the tech industry a "post mortem": a meeting where you go over what was right and wrong for the project. By then everyone's dogs (feet) are all tired, so the con's last meeting was called a dead dog party.

When I started a BBS (bulletin board service, what you called up with your modem before the internet became popular) I wanted a theme for the BBS, and I decided it would try to be an online convention. So I named the BBS "Dead Dog Party." When I killed the BBS due to not having enough phone lines, I transferred the name to my website and obtained the domain name. The site is not much about sci-fi or comics conventions anymore. Hey, my life changed and I've half gafiated. :) The site undergoes constant change which is why the various pages look different from each other.