GB Business Bio

I was drawn to the computer field by a fascination with the electromagnetic realm, which I am preparing to demonstrate the powerful effects of in the above photo. This led in a rather indirect progression to my current position as international sales director for a database software company.

I really like my job, and I get to meet interesting people from all over the world. This is a picture of my Russian friends; Vlatcheslava, Director of a Moscow computer enterprise, his esteemed associate (and my good friend) Nikolai, on my left, and a very sweet lady (whose name escapes me now) on my right.

I don't know how I got the uneven tan that I seem to have in this photo. Perhaps I'd just been on that fishing trip to Mexico - or maybe it was the time I fell asleep under the heat lamp at my part time job at Pizza Hut.

It's very interesting to track the changes in the former terra incognita of Russia and its now mostly independent periphery. I'm particularly interested in Central Asia (& Genghis Khan and all that stuff). A web site to visit for the latest news is OMRI, or Open Media Research Institute. There also was a regular broadcast of the news from Moscow translated into English on CSPAN at 11pm Pacific time, and I enjoyed watching that - but they stopped this at the beginning of the year for some reason.

I get to go to a lot of great meetings, like the one pictured above. Here we see a number of international resellers enthralled by a lecture on the benefits of client-server SQL capabilities with a post-relational model. On the immediate left we have the Australians - one I shall not name so he'll not be remembered only for the side of his head, behind him John and Mark of T Data (Sydney). To Mark's left, Clive and Steve of Sanderson Cotswold (UK); front row, Frederic of Patio Informatique (Paris) and a tearfully enraptured Steven, formerly South Africa, now President of Datafaction (LA); far right Jean-Pierre from Paris.

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A friendly cyber-wave to the following commercial sites for their support. You can view the web pages of where I currently work, where I sometimes play, and who I've been known to associate with (in both categories) by clicking on the logos below.

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I can be reached at work at gdb@picksys.com, but that doesn't have the same cachet as GBonline@aol.com You can also email me at kgxj65a@prodigy.com