Bio

I was born in Wisconsin and raised in Cebu City, Philippines until I was seven. I became thoroughly Filipino and then thoroughly American when my family moved back to Wisconsin.

I finished high school without incident, an active member of the Boy Scouts and the National Honor Society. While in high school I started my consulting business and had a full-time employee for 2.5 years.

I'm currently at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying Computer Science and Mathematics.

Projects and Interests

I did full-time consulting with PHP, MySQL, and Javascript from 2004 through 2008. I think Javascript is an amazing tool and I'm happy the browser wars are pushing JS performance.

My goals for computing: automated backups (a la Time Machine), automatic wireless synchronization between devices, automatic mandatory encryption locally and with network communications (TrueCrypt, PGP), total data portability and local copies of anything on The Cloud (Microformats help, and Blogger is excellent with data portability). All of these technologies but not all computer users take advantage of them... yet.

I love C and adore Objective-C.

Spring 2010: I'm keeping myself busy with Assembly, logic, French, orchestra, and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.