Mesa Technology

Mesa Technology hired me to fill a contract with IBM, and after that ended I worked for Mesa until April 2001 as the network administrator and general technical handyman. I ran the cable, set up DHCP and Samba (for filesharing and mobile profiles), did Windows desktop support, set up a Beowulf cluster, built some small web apps, and ordered lunch.

While working on those web apps, I fell in love with web coding. I'd been programming for ten years at that point and immediately took to the web's design space. Six months later, I knew I had to go to college to pick up the theory to match my practical experience.