GB Business Bio
I was drawn to the computer field by a fascination with the
electromagnetic realm, which I am preparing to demonstrate the
powerful effects of in the above photo. This led in a rather
indirect progression to my current position as international
sales director for a database software company.
I really like my job, and I get to meet interesting people from
all over the world. This is a picture of my Russian friends;
Vlatcheslava, Director of a Moscow computer enterprise, his
esteemed associate (and my good friend) Nikolai, on my left,
and a very sweet lady (whose name escapes me now) on my
right.
I don't know how I got the uneven tan that I seem to have in
this photo. Perhaps I'd just been on that fishing trip to
Mexico - or maybe it was the time I fell asleep under the heat
lamp at my part time job at Pizza Hut.
It's very interesting to track the changes in the former
terra incognita of Russia and its now mostly independent
periphery. I'm particularly interested in Central Asia (&
Genghis Khan and all that stuff). A web
site to visit for the latest news is
OMRI, or Open
Media Research Institute. There also was a regular broadcast of the news from
Moscow translated into English on CSPAN at 11pm Pacific time,
and I enjoyed watching that - but they stopped this at the
beginning of the year for some reason.
I get to go to a lot of great meetings, like the one pictured
above. Here we see a number of international resellers
enthralled by a lecture on the benefits of client-server SQL
capabilities with a post-relational model. On the immediate
left we have the Australians - one I shall not name so he'll
not be remembered only for the side of his head, behind him
John and Mark of T Data (Sydney). To Mark's
left, Clive and Steve of Sanderson Cotswold
(UK); front row, Frederic of Patio Informatique (Paris)
and a tearfully enraptured Steven, formerly South
Africa, now President of Datafaction (LA); far right
Jean-Pierre from Paris.
There will be more interesting business-type things that
I
will be adding here in the future. Hurry back!
Commercial
Sites
A friendly cyber-wave to the following commercial sites for their
support. You can view the web pages of where I currently work, where I sometimes play, and
who I've been known to associate
with (in both categories) by clicking on the logos below.
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