Spent the first 15 years of my working career at Telex Communications, Inc. primarily doing product design and development utilizing Intel MCS-48 and Motorola 6800 series microcontrollers. The economy took a downturn and design engineering started going offshore, so I switched my full-time career to IT where I worked as a UNIX Systems Administrator, Network Engineer, IT Security Engineer, and Network Capacity Planner. I still do side jobs and home projects designing with PIC, Arduino, Cypress PSoC, and Zilog Z8 microcontrollers. Graduated at the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (BEE) with honors.