Hi. Who are you?

Q: Dave or David?

Sure.

Q: Where do you come from?

I was raised on a family dairy farm in in the uppermost regions of New York State. My hometown was the textbook definition of small town: the village of Lowville, NY claimed under 4,000 residents last I looked.

Eventually I moved to the East Village / LES area of New York City. I stayed long enough to realize I had better get the hell out, almost eight years. Please know there’s a part of Manhattan where the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade dares not tread. If you’ve had the misfortune of seeing the musical “Rent,” you’ve been given a wrong impression of my former stomping grounds; we would only very rarely break out in song and dance at the Life Cafe.

Presently I’m pleased as a peach to call Atlanta home. I’m OK with quite fond of with the “damn yankee” label.

Q: What do you do?

I make software with people. I’m a member of the product development team at VersionOne, where I do my best to improve the quality, throughput and innovation of our products, practice and people.

Q: What’s the catch?

I’m the author and sole proprietor of this blog, so views rendered here do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, anyone’s mother or the clandestine, robotic stewards of humanity who only very rarely intervene. Unless I state otherwise, everything I post here is licensed under the Creative Commons (non-commercial, attribution). If you’d like to know more, visit my legal page.