Dave's Career Path

RPI graduate 2005
Ai Squared software engineer – 2005 to present
Resides in Manchester, Vermont

Any one of our developers could sit down and tell you working at Ai2 is fun, interesting, and satisfying, but like most anything, it's so much better experienced first hand. I'm not sure I could've picked a better place to develop my career – the resources available, the wide range of fun projects I work on, the minions I lord over ... Manchester's a pretty fun place too – a small town feel, but close enough to all the places I want to go. Oh, and if you play softball, let me know ...

Dave's Favorite Stuff

Sports: Baseball ... basketball and football play second fiddle
Teams: New York Yankees
Books: Calvin and Hobbes, Harry Potter, Memoirs of a Geisha, Lord of the Rings, The Da Vinci Code
Movies: Standard geek fare (i.e., Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Interview with the Vampire, etc.). Also, I feel like everyone ought to watch Crash.
TV Shows: New York Yankees baseball, Great Teacher Onizuka (live action series, not that anime garbage), Iron Chef, SportsCenter
Music: Basically anything not Country or Rap – I'm a tolerant guy
Bands: Metallica, Green Day, REM, movie soundtracks by Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away, Kikujiro, etc.)
Cusine: Japanese, French, Italian
Foods: Sushi
Local restaurants: my kitchen – I love to cook
Video games: Star Control 2, Final Fantasy anything, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Metal Gear Solid, Legend of Zelda, Mario, etc.
Favorite coding language: C#
Least Favorite coding language: LISP (I’ve heard this called the "Real Man's programming language" – you know who you are if you’re reading this)
Favorite line of code: Any function call where the computer just reads my mind and does my bidding. Direct3D provides us with an excellent example:
g_pD3DDevice->Present( NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL );
Web Sites: Penny-Arcade, Yahoo Sports, The Daily WTF