I write software for a living. Specifically, I work for AthenaHealth in Watertown, Mass. We offer a great medical-billing system.
Before that, I worked for a company called Synquiry.com. Despite the best
intentions, and a really great product, they ran out of money in late
September, 2001. (which was a really bad time for a starting company
to need funding) *sigh*
Before that, between 1996 and 2000, I worked for BBN in Cambridge, Mass. This was a fascinating environment to be working in, and I really enjoyed it, but after being acquired by GTE, then Bell Atlantic, it became apparent that the thing to do would be to try my hand at a smaller company.
Before that, I was a student at Brown University where I got my Sc.B. degree in Computer Science, with some focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Databases. While I was there, I TA'ed classes for Thomas L. Dean and Stan Zdonik.