John Fitzpatrick
Engineer of the Future, Rule 280 Consulting

Involved with computers since the days of BASIC on PDP-8/e and Pascal on DECsystem-10s. Used 8-bit micros with CP/M and UCSD p-System. Worked at Heathkit (remember them?) with their H-89 and Z-100 computers.

Survived the PC clone wars. I still miss the keyboard from the AT&T PC-AT “semi-clone”. Transitioned to Windows and now Linux.

I’ve been a developer, an analyst, a tester, a build-master, a sysadmin, and a version control sheriff.

I’ve used C, C++, Java, and C#. Now a fan of Perl and Ruby.

Moving to functional programming and visualization. Interested in Haskell and tools like GraphViz and Processing.