Born in 1967 and raised in Oklahoma City, OK, I graduated from Putnam City High School in 1985 and graduated college from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1989. I taught high school and coached football, wrestling and track for five years at Putnam City, Del City and Enid High Schools and then left teaching to enter the computer technology field.

After working in computer technology in Oklahoma City, OK Dallas and Houston, TX for several years, I relocated to Austin, TX in 2009 where I continue to work in technology and share our family ranch with my brother and his family, my parents, my 6 year old son and 34 longhorn cattle. I enjoy camping, traveling, music, cooking, concerts, home theater, hi-fi, keyboards, synthesizers, bar-b-que, computers, software, gadgets and entertaining.

Computer software has been a passion of mine since the early days, and I was always trying out a new operating system, graphical user interface or utility. From PubTech Organizer, to GEM, to DR-DOS, to Windows/286 and all other flavor of Windows, OS/2 and many others. I've used a variety of different tools to "get the job done" but more likely just to "geek out" with a new piece of software. My favorite GUI/OS of all time though was and still is GEOS. I was late to the GEOS party having never owned an Apple II or a Commodore 64/128, but the first time I saw the brilliance of GeoWorks I knew I'd found nirvana. I was there from the start, with GeoWorks Version 1.0 through every GeoWorks release, most NewDeal Office releases and with the most up-to-date version yet, Breadbox Esemble 4.13.

Yes, I've moved on to the dark-side...I use Microsoft Office daily running Windows 7, but of course I couldn't do it the easy way...I'm running Windows 7 through VMware Fusion on a MacBook Pro running OS X Snow Leopard. But I still touch GEOS regularly, mostly running it on a thumb drive with my DOSBox environment using it as the launcher for my favorite legacy DOS games, occasionally to do data conversions between DOS apps and newer apps, and to easily manage DOS program installations, copying and moving files in DOS, reading program documentation and other file management tasks.

With that said, I'm still blown away at its capabilities 25 years later and thus that is the reason for GEOS/central. It would be a shame to let the GEOS legacy die.