Dan was born and raised in Ouray.  He received his BA in Economics from CU-Boulder, and initially worked in mainframe operations for Neodata Services in Boulder.  Since then he has spent his professional life at Eastman Kodak Company in Windsor, Colorado.  Early responsibilities at Kodak included MACRO11 assembler process control applications development and support for a proprietary operating system similar to RSX11M.  Mid-career, Dan was “VAXinated” and assigned responsibility for both OpenVMS administration and applications development and support.  The addition of WinTel workstations and servers across the Kodak campus drove the need for a flexible and reliable 7x24x365 network. Dan was a major contributor to the design, planning and implementation that matured to a network comprised of eight fully redundant Cisco 65xx L3 building complex switches, 89 Cisco access switches and two 7505 WAN routers. Additional network-related responsibilities included support of Solaris, HP Openview, Checkpoint/ Firewall1, NT/W2K servers and workstations, and management of the class B public address space used by the 1100 node network. Dan has a passion for delivering secure, reliable, and low-maintenance network computing environments.