"I did a PhD in Computer Science at University of Washington in High Performance Computing (HPC). I moved into database and distributed applications in 1999 to be a part of a larger community. I'm currently doing consulting and building distributed, database system with open source technology (J2EE) as the infrastructure.

"I like traveling. I've lived in 8 different states/countries for a minimum of 2 years in my span of 35 years of living, including 2 foreign countries. If we count the cities, the number of places increases by 50% to 12, and the minimum time decreases to 1 year (meaning I lived in 12 places, each at least for a year over the last 35 years), giving an average of 2.92 years per place.

"I recently spent 3 weeks in China where my latest consulting job took me. 1 week in Beijing and 2 weeks in Changchun speaking through a translator about J2EE and open source tools.