William M.

My career started with a crime: I tore an ad for an HP-65 programmable calculator out of a Scientific American in my high school library--I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could be programmed to follow a series of steps. Shortly after that I entered college as a Computer Science major. I loved it immediately. I earned BS and MS degrees in Computer Science. After almost a decade in industry, I became an independent software development contractor/consultant. In 1996 I took the o…