About:

I'm Tony, a Taurus and an INTJ; 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 while I started out on the street, I found myself most at home in the dirt and recently picked up a 1999 Suzuki RM125 and a 2002 Yamaha XT225, also known as the Serow to further those two wheeled off road adventures.

I was born in Miami, though I spent a few years of my early childhood in Wisconsin and later on a year in Colorado when I was a rebellious 18 year old. Although I had packed all of my worldly possessions in my car and headed out into the world thinking who knows what, I ended up returning to Northern California after being gone for only a year. A few years later 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 dog.

Modes of transportation
2 Wheels present:
- 2002 Yamaha XT225
- 1999 Suzuki RM125

Past:
- 2001 Honda CBR 600 F4i
- 1991 Yamaha FZR 600

4 Wheels present:
- 2003 Land Rover Discover SE, stock for now
- 1995 Jeep Wrangler YJ SE, SOA, Detroit, D44/50, SYE, 35"'s, etc
- 1992 Jeep Cherokee XJ Limited 3" 4WDH lift, 31"'s, Durabak'd interior

 

Human powered: On the water: Ocean Kayak Prowler 15 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 - Gary Fisher Joshua X1 - Twenty Nine   BMX / 20" Bikes - MOSH LUX 3 STAR GOLD (Sold) - Auburn CR20Rx - GT Fueler (MIA!)

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