Hi, I’m Nate. I’m a geek.

Actually, I’m technically a software architect, which basically means I spend my days hammering on a keyboard, drawing squiggles on a whiteboard, or rambling on about the "right" way to line up vast quantities of ones and zeroes. I work at a software consulting firm called Commercial Timesharing. While the company’s name makes it sound like we sell condos, our actual business is custom software engineering, primarily within the tire industry. I’m also the sole proprietor of Enkari, Ltd., whose primary business is creating open-source software for the .NET platform.

I hail from sunny constantly overcast Akron, which is a medium-sized Midwestern city in northeast Ohio known for only two things: being the former capital of the rubber industry and the birthplace of LeBron James. I was born and raised here, and have lived within the same 20 mile radius all my life.

I married my high school sweetheart, Nicole, in June of 2006. (She’s the cute blonde in the above picture, if you were wondering. :) She’s a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Akron, studying Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Basically, that means that we don’t understand a thing about what each other does at work. She completed her MA in the summer of 2007, which I think means I legally have to refer to her as "master".

Along with technology, I’m also very interested in music, in all of its forms. I have an extremely wide breadth of musical interests, ranging from classical to classic rock, Motown to vocal trance, and drum and bass to pop-punk. (Oddly enough, I hate describing music with genres, in spite of the fact that I just listed half a dozen of them!) I’ve been involved in the use of the Internet for musical distribution since the early goings, running an Internet radio station back when you could do so without the RIAA suing your pants off. I’ve never learned to play an instrument, so I think I compensate by learning the lyrics to Dire Straits‘ Down to the Waterline backwards and forwards instead. I’m also a self-diagnosed professional football fanatic, and as a die-hard Cleveland Browns fan, I’m a hopeless glutton for punishment.