Well, it is not that hard to find out my docs. I don't try very hard to hide them, but I am also not going to just give them to you.

Why are you here though? I mean, why would you care about who *I* am anyway? That is the real question isn't it? Well, I will tell you a little about myself, and then you may decide that you don't, in fact, care after all!

You are probably here because you either know me, or have heard of me from one of my articles, projects, or some appearance somewhere. That is great, and I welcome you to the site! If you are here because you hate me, or are looking for trouble, go away because I really don't care what you have to say. If you are here because you *don't* know me, then hopefully you will get a little idea of what I am about.

I was born in Newport News, Virginia but moved when I was 5 years old.  I currently reside in Orlando, Florida but I have lived in 6 different states and have been all over the east coast. I am in my mid 30s (born 9/13/1971) and have been a senior programmer/analyst for some fortune 500 companies (which will remain unnamed) and several Universities. 

My main work experience is in Oracle doing PL/SQL programming, but I have direct hands-on experience in C, some old mainframe languages (like easytrieve, and COBOL), numerous report writing tools (crystal reports, focus, etc...), and basic shell scripting.  My hobby experience as a hacker includes some minor PHP programming (mostly modifying existing code), very basic perl, HTML of course, and some other assorted custom languages such as WML (wiki markup language).  I also studied C++, PASCAL, FORTRAN, BASIC in college so I have enough knowledge of them to jump into any of them with a fairly short learning curve.

I have also attended 4 universities, accumulated almost 200 credit hours of coursework in Computer Science.  I originally graduated from the University of Kentucky - JCC campus back in 1992 fresh out of high school.  I then took night courses at the University of Louisville for a couple of years while I worked a full-time job at an advertsiing software company in downtown Louisville, KY.  When you take part-time classes like that, it is very difficult to finish a degree, especially since they can change the curriculum requirements anytime that they want which sets your education back.  Part time students are not locked into the program and classes may have been wasted.  Because of this, I took a job at Florida Atlantic University in South Florida where I was allowed to take part time courses for free.  While doing this, I also took some part time classes at a local community college to try to get my bachelors degree faster.  I eventually got my Bachelors in Computer Science in Spring of 2002.

Besides the college coursework, I also take many side courses as well.  I am a lifelong student and enjoy learning.  I got my CEH certification in 2003 and even assisted in teaching the courses as a guest speaker at Intense School in Fort Lauderdale, FL.  I take electronics courses at home and frequently buy tutorial CDs for a number of topics to study in my free time.

I have been published in several magazines including 2600 and blacklisted411, where I am listed as staff writers for each. But I do not only write for these publications, I also proudly support independant zines such as Radical Future, Outbreak, Frequency, and other zines by writing for them as well. I also publish my own printed magazine called Binary Revolution with a lot of help and support from the rest of the DDP. If you haven't heard of it, you might want to check it out. You are definitely missing some amazing stuff.

In addition to my writing, I also host a weekly radio show called Binary Revolution Radio that airs every Tuesday on rantradio and our own radio server called DDP Hackradio. I have also been on several episodes of Default Radio, Radio Freek America, GAMERadio, the mindwar, and more if I can make the time. We discuss all sorts if interesting topics that may be of interest to those people who found their way to this site.

Unfortunately, print media and radio have their limitations. Sometimes you need to show something visually (and have a little phun while doing it). This is what spawned our TV Show. We were the first, although others try to claim that title. We were slow about releasing episodes due to our real lives and other projects, and lot of other great shows came out. I don't care who came first or who was inspired by whom. I support them all.

What other projects am I involved in? There are too many to name them all, quite honestly. I have a lot of great friends in the community and we all help each other out on projects whenever possible. My primary project is the Binary Revolution which is the namesake of the magazine and radio show mentioned above. This is a movement of forming a new community of cooperation and respect online without the problems that plague the real world. Most of our projects are group projects from the DDP and are linked from this site and the binrev.com site. More are being worked on and added every single day.

So there it is. My life story...well not really, but that is a good summary of the reasons why you may be here, or may be interested in me and the things that I do. If not, no hard feelings. I am an acquired taste. If you *did* find something here that you found interesting, or something on which you would like more information, please feel free to contact me through this web site or my easily found email address. But if you were simply looking for the easy answer to your question...

Who am I?

My name is StankDawg and I am a hacker.