Database engineer/consultant, technology survivor, and writer of things both real and imagined… sometimes, Jeff yearns for the fun days of his youth admiring the girls from (way) afar at the public pool, programming games on the Commodore 64 and playing Spy Hunter, Ultima and D&D all night long.
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Tech Experience: 16+ years of paid work in the IT industry (and about 10+ years playing with computers and programming prior to that). Primary area of expertise lies with Oracle databases as a database administrator, data modeler, data architect and occasional programmer. Specializations include Oracle RAC, Linux/Unix systems, troubleshooting and performance tuning. Also, over the years, worked with data warehousing, ETL programming (OWB, custom), MySQL, DB2, SQL Server, networking, SANs, Perl, PHP, C/C++, Java, and MUD/Commodore 64 game design/development (a bit rusty with those skillsets).
Writing Experience: “Digital Webbing Presents” (comic book, various issues)–Arazel & Xarenia, Yin Yang (dialogue), Dungeon Bears: An 80s Parody, Arazel & Xarenia: This Adventure Stinks, Bob the Battleship, Spook’d, Brat-halla. “Breaking Out!” (articles, website content for Digital Webbing). “Brat-halla” (webcomic, writer/letterer, 2003-current). “Spook’d” (webcomic, writer/letterer, 2004-2006). “Arazel & Xarenia” (screenplay, unsold, 2003 Austin Film Festival second rounder, 2003 Nicholl Fellowship top 6%). “Hero Happy Hour Super Special” (comic book)–Dynamic Duel. “Even More Fund Comics” (comic book)–Arazel & Xarenia: Butter-frag. “The Art of Words” (articles, website content for Scryptic Studios). “Random Encounters” (screenplay, unsold, Winter 2005 A Feeding Frenzy honorable mention, 2005 Red Inkworks top 100 [81], 2005 Screenwriting Expo top 25%). “BloodRayne: Skies Afire” (comic book, co-writer/editor). “Video Game to Comic Adaptation–unpublished project” (comic book, co-writer/work-for-hire, Studio ICE). “Ted Noodleman: Bicycle Delivery Boy” (comic book, backup stories–Geektopia, The Detectives Grimm, The Detectives Grimm… Deja Vu). “Steampunk Faeries” (comic book, writer/letterer). “Task Force 1” (comic book, writer, 4 issues, created by Jim Valentino, Shadowline/Image Comics). “The Creative Adviser” (humor articles, website content for PopSyndicate). “Mutant Werewolf Zombie Ninjas” (screenplay, unsold–rough draft).
