Since moving to the Bay Area in 2001 I have been working at Pixar. Prior to that I lived in China and was the Chief Software Architect at AsiaInfo, the company that built China's internet. I studied computer science and worked in Texas for many years. I've worked at two startups... the first was bought by BEA, and the second was AsiaInfo, which has now grown to 7,000 employees. mh@pixar.com on stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/116/mark-harrison