Some guys grow up under the hood of a car, on a ball field, or in front of a video game. Not me. I was building radios. I’ve always had a passion for all things wireless and telephonic.

My Formal Education.
I graduated college in 1984 with a double major in Finance and Economics. Over the past 25 years, I’ve gained a broad base of experience across these diverse industries: computer software, aerospace, semiconductor manufacturing, aviation, banking and mortgage, and telecommunications.

My positions have varied from computer programmer to database administrator, from network administrator to airline pilot (I do fly airplanes and teach others how to fly), and from engineer to a sales technology consultant.

For the last nine years, I’ve worked for some of the largest wireless telecom carriers, delivering complex wireless mobilization solutions to large corporate customers. Today, I’ve taken the sum of the parts and brought it down to the individual user and small office space.

My Family Telecom History.
My family got started in wireless and telecommunications back when radio was in its infancy. Escaping the family farm in Ohio and heading to New York City on his own, my grandfather worked three jobs and attended “Radio School,” graduating in 1921, the year after America’s first radio station went live in Pittsburgh.

His first job was as a shipboard radio operator for the Dodge family yacht (of Dodge motor car fame), using Morse Code to communicate on the high seas. Eventually working for AT&T for most of his life and having been an Amateur Radio operator, my grandfather infected me with the telecom bug at a very young age.

In fact, even before I learned to drive, I earned my Extra Class Ham Radio license, call sign K3HF. Naturally, as computer technology and the Internet developed, my wireless passion grew in even broader and more complex directions.

From Car Radios to iPhones.
As a young man, my cars always had various two-way radios, and when the first cellular telephone networks arrived on the scene, I was the first guy on the block who installed one (1984).

It was a massive analog trunk-mounted beast, which by today’s standards was very limited in range, voice quality, and general capability. And, of course, it was fantastically expensive to operate. There were no “buckets of minutes” in those days… and the roaming charges cost a bundle!

Then came the bag phones and the “brick” phones, which gradually evolved into the beautifully engineered Motorola StarTac. I had them all!

Today, we have the Blackberry, the iPhone, Windows Mobile, and hundreds of “converged” devices. Each of these contains more computing horsepower and capability than the last PC we bought.

Well, I’m the guy who has one of each, just for the fun of it, and at any time, I carry at least two devices with me.