About me

<p><span>I started my professional life in Television Production as an Engineer working on commercials, political programming, and live events. At 30 I went back to school to get my AA and BA. I have worked my way into the Project Management and Business Analysis fields first at the Iowa Public Employees Retirement System (IPERS) and now at Wellmark BlueCross BlueShield. While working full-time I completed my Masters Degree in IT Management at Colorado Technical University. Currently I have developed a Content Management and Collaboration Strategy for Wellmark and we are implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.</span></p> <p><span>At home I am an avid Linux and Open Source user.  My family machine is loaded with OpenSuse but I have moved to Ubuntu on my personal machine after the purchase of a Dell 530n preloaded with Ubuntu 7.10.  It is my belief that businesses are often paying too much for software under the spell of the big software producers.  </span></p>