DISCLAIMER

Since this website exists primarily for my narcissistic pleasure, you'll have to cope with my idiosyncrasies as best you can.

Remember that you came here voluntarily, and that any predictable mental discomfort is your problem, not mine.

About Me...

Welcome! I'm a 40-something husband and uncle who likes to dabble in music, adult beverages, politics (make sure to check out my BLOG!), and the occasional building of websites. I was born and rasied in Eastern Iowa and went to small technical college in Illinois. After graduation, I moved to Albuquerque and somehow ended up in the Central Valley of Northern California.

I'm also a partner in a small business, Valley Engineering Group, Inc., located in the San Francisco East Bay city of Livermore. We're a company that specializes in providing mechanical engineering services and contract staff to our clients in Silicon Valley. After college I worked as a mechanical designer at Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Engergy Laboratory in both New Mexico and California. My partners and I quit Sandia in 1997 to start VEG and we have been steadily building our company ever since, fast approaching almost 100 employees and subcontractors.

As mentioned before, I'm a happily married man who is blessed to have met such a wonderful woman whom he doesn't deserve. Although we have no children of our own, we have "inherited" my wife's nephew, now a budding teenager (lucky us) who is definitely making life more interesting, to say the least...

Music has always been an important staple in my life, playing trombone and bass in marching, symphonic, and jazz band while in school, or banging my head (and going deaf) playing guitar in various bands over many years. My current project, Timeline, is a progressive rock band that writes our own original material. Needless to say, we don't play out much...

For the past few years, my wife and I have been learning, sampling, and collecting wine. In fact, we met at a local wine shop, The Wine Steward. At this point in our vinocultural journey our favorite wines come from France, primarily from the Burgundy and Rhone regions. Fret not, we still love and collect California wines and also those from Spain and Italy.