About:

I'm Tony, a Taurus and an INTP; when compared to the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles I'm apparently like "the grouchy one", aka Raphael. I'm an artist and a thinker, I go four wheeling in my jeep and backpacking and hiking in the mountains. I love mountain biking and for fun in my opinion you just can't beat a good day of paintball out in the woods. I've been riding motorcycles for a couple of years now and my current iron horse is a 25th Anniversary 2008 Buell Ulysses XT which I love.

Back in 1998 I made a move to Southern California and after a 6 year stint in the Los Angeles area, I returned to the SF East Bay of Northern California which is where I grew up and where I call home today. Just me, my beautiful wife and my crazy dogs.

Modes of transportation
2 Wheels present:
- 2002 Yamaha XT225 (down for the count)
- 1999 Suzuki RM125
- 2008 Buell Ulysses XT
- 1986 Yamaha 600XT (build in progress)

4 Wheels present:
- 2008 Dodge Ram Big Horn 4x4
- 1995 Jeep Wrangler YJ SE, SOA, Detroit, D44/50, SYE, 35"'s, etc

 

Human powered: On the water: A custom skin on frame kayak I am in the process of building myself. On land: Mountain Bikes: - KHS FXT Comp "Betty" Brakes front: Avid Mechanical 7" disc (Avid lever) Brakes rear: Avid Mechanical 6" disc (Avid Lever) Wheel front: Intense Mag 50 Wheel rear: Sun Rhyno Lite 27mm Tires: Maxxis High Rollers front and rear Hubs: Shimano XT Deraileurs: Shimano LX Rear Shock: Fox Vanilla L 600# Front Fork: Marzocchi Z1 Drop Off 130mm Cranks: Kona ChroMo Bottom Bracket: Kona Pedals: VP 566 platforms Seat: WTB RocketV Seatpost: Race Face Xy Neck: Race Face Diabulous 70mm Headset: Cane Creek Bars: 26" Azonic Ultracross 2.5" riser Grips: ODI Ruffian lock on mojo: Red Baron Snoopy

My cheesy smile :)

Some notable accomplishments:
- I was responsible for the complete redesign of an entire five office WAN that spanned from San Francisco to San Diego, working closely with Cisco and Sprint vendors and reporting directly to the CIO. In addition to a full mesh ATM, my design incorporated a dynamic VPN failover system using local internet connections, providing my company with a virtually failsafe network and saving us from countless numbers of lost man hours, due to the older failing frame relay which I replaced.

- I created a web based remote access system via a website login, secured using 3DES Safeword tokens. Safeword Corporation launched an ad campaign featuring my innovative solution, including an interview with Tim McGurran the President and COO of Safeword Corporation which aired on SkyRadio for several months. I was also quotable in the ComputerWorld article "Beyond Passwords" by Debra Radcliff.

- In 2006 I wrote a VBscript that was used across the enterprise at my present employer to automatically configure one of our groupware applications that resides on nearly every PC, a process which was beforehand being done manually by IT technicians on an individual user and machine basis. That script alone saved us many thousands of man hours; I guess what makes that notable is that my role at that time was not that of a programmer and that I did it in my free time to help out with the upgrades being done by hand. 437 lines of clean coded goodness. (Though these days programming has indeed become a role of mine.)

If you feel the urge to contact me, you can drop me an email by removing your brain and sending me a note to: tonyYOURBRAIN@secretreality.com