Who am I, and why am I here?
After much procrastinating, I have decided to actually fill out and complete a page that is somewhat autobiographical in nature.
I am a 31-year-old male living in Baltimore, Maryland. I was born in Baltimore, and I have lived in and around the city for most of my life. I attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute–Poly, as it is known in local circles. Following that, I received a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. I then completed my Master of Public Management at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy in College Park, Maryland. If you want to know what I look like, behold the photo above.
Following graduate school, I wound up pursuing a technical track for my career. I started working in technical support for my graduate school, and I continued working various system administrator roles around the College Park campus. I recently ended my employment there, finishing the last five years at the Office of Information Technology as a system administrator of Novell NetWare and Microsoft Windows systems. I recently began work for an account firm as their IT director. I tend to have an interest in high level systems design and system security. I also like being able to work on policy and planning–things that stem from systems design (in my opinion). The great part about this job is that I have been able to learn how things work from a technical standpoint. For some reason, that is something that I have always enjoyed.
The blog that you are reading here is just a series of random thoughts–rants, opinions, or interesting finds on the Internets. Sometimes I post some technical content, and that is mainly to occasionally help my fellow Net denizens or other technical types. I took the name–baltimoremick–from my Irish and Baltimore roots. I don’t mean to offend, but I thought it the perfect name for this venue given its author.
If you feel the need to contact me, any of the methods below work.
Email: jasonjthomas AT gmail DOT com
AIM: jjtaim
MSN: jasonjthomas AT hotmail DOT com
Yahoo!: jasonjthomasumd
ICQ: 83676303
