Born in 1970, I early became interested in computing and programming languages. Since I could never decide to either build computers using TTL or FPGAs or program them, I decided to become a mathematician by profession which first brought me into the development of medical measurement equipment (hardware), then I was programming control systems for petrochemical plants using VAX-Fortran an MACRO-32 and finally I got employed by a rather large bank, now programming mainly in Perl and C with occasional usage of Python (*argh*) and some S/3x0 assembler. :-) Currently I am a project manager for a project in which we implement interfaces for sending and receiving SWIFT messages.

Apart from this I spend my time collecting VAX-systems and other (mainly DEC) machines/mainframes and analog computers which I like to maintain and program in my spare time.