About Rodney

Born in Nanaimo, British Columbia in 1968, and growing up just north in Parksville on Vancouver Island, I developed an enjoyment for beautiful scenery and the outdoors. After spending 4 years in Alberta going high school, I returned to British Columbia’s west coast and moved to the Vancouver area for university in 1987. I attended Simon Fraser University where I studied Computer Science. After school I worked for several years for a Lumber firm doing Network management and software development. I’m now managing the Information Technology Department for software company in Richmond.

In 1994, while volunteering for the Vancouver Fringe festival, I met Jeaniene, we were married on the beach in Porta Vallarta, Mexico in January of 2001. Jeaniene and I have lived for most of our time together in the downtown part of Vancouver as this allowed Jeaniene the opportunity to be by the ocean. Besides a love for the arts we also share a love for the outdoors which is the main reason she moved to the coast from Calgary. Unfortunately she doesn’t share my two other passions Computers and Auto racing.

The first time I typed anything into a computer was playing with a VIC-20 in K-Mart when I was 14. I was excited by the simple typing of the word RUN hitting the carriage return and it spiting back OK onto the screen. Shortly after that, after much begging and pleading by me, my parents bought me my first computer, a Atari 400. The first weekend I owned the machine I wrote a simple game to play as the dealer in Black Jack. Looking back it seems like such a simple task but it allowed me to learn my first language, Basic. Since that time I have written software in over 30 different computer languages.

Originally I was writing things in Basic then Assembler on my Atari, then as I got access to other machines I was able to program many others. In high school I had access to a Digital Equipment PDP-11 which I learned Pascal, Fortran and Diabol (a Cobol type language proprietary to Digital.) In university I worked with other systems and languages from the obvious (C), the obscure (Plus), and the obsolete (PL1) Side note: I took the last offering of PL1 taught at Simon Fraser just kicks. Lately I have been mostly writing in web based languages such and this website was a good excuse for me to work on my PHP skills.

Recently I have begun a new hobby, GeoCaching. We will see how much time I am able to devote to this new hobby as my child is growing up.

I am a huge auto racing fan and love attending the Vancouver Indy each year.