Cuz I think it's a good idea Real Name: Victor F. Laurence Nationality: French / Cuban American Lives: Portland, Oregon metro area (Happy Valley, OR) Age: 33 Hair: Brown/Black Eyes: Brown Profession: Sr. Software Engineer of Environmental Health Safety & Sustainability From my Linked-In Profile: Highly motivated, creative and enthusiastic software engineer with a wide breadth of technical, managerial, and leadership skills. Accomplished in writing, debugging, and architecting windows and web based .Net applications and the databases that they run on. Excellent analytical and organizational skills with a passion for LEAN and Agile methodologies, simplifying procedures, and finding innovative solutions. Charismatic leader with a passion for supporting team success. Voracious life-long learner, always expanding technical, managerial, and leadership skills. Described several times by others in key projects as "only man for the job" and always succeeds when put to a task. Specialties: Leadership, change management, planning, Information systems analysis, implementation, & integration, Software engineering, design, development, testing, data processing, C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, WebServices, Crystal Reports, Visual Basic, XNA, Managed Direct X, Game Scripting, Game Design, ADO, ADO.NET, Access, SQL, MySQL, Oracle, HTML, XML, Java, ActiveX, ASP, PHP, ASPX, ASMX, Flash, OOP, COM, COM+, API, WMI, Acrobat, InDesign, PhotoShop, Illustrator, FrameMaker, Windows Networking, and various other stuff A little bit more personal stuff (from my blog @ www.victorlaurence.com... which I haven't updated in forever): Who am i? Well, the basics are that I’m 6′ tall with brown hair and seductively dark brown eyes (or so the ladies say). Currently living in Portland, Oregon. If you see me on the street, I’ll probably be wearing some kind of stylish black jacket (have to wear one all the time in Oregon), a nice warm scarf, and probably on of my collection of Gatsby/driving hats. I’m pretty clean cut, so I’m usually wearing a nice polo shirt, dress shirt, or something else relatively conservative. I’ve moved around a lot in my days, originally from Miami, FL. I was 9 when I moved to Memphis, TN for 4 years, then to St. Louis for 2 years, then proceeded to here in Oregon where I’ve lived ever since. I can’t see myself ever living in an other place other than Oregon, it’s such a beautiful place, the air is so fresh and clean. You could say I’m my father’s son. My father was (is currently retired) one of the best managers of the Federal Reserve Bank during his time of service. He was famous as a manager for going to different offices and increasing efficiencies, broken procedures, and improving business practices. Since I was a child, much of his managerial knowledge was bestowed upon me just from exposure to conversations at home. Since then throughout my career, I knew that eventually one day I would follow in his managerial footsteps. Being a natural coder since the age of 8 or 9, I’ve always perused a career in software development. My career in software development started at the age of 17, where my first job was doing software development on contract for Epson Portland. In recent years exposure to volunteer leadership positions and at my previous job opened up my realization that my true potential was in management. Since then I’ve taken coursework in leadership and motivation, risk management, change management, and continuously study great minds in business like John P. Kotter (even have talked with him about a leadership side project I’m working on). To keep my skills and ideas flowing, I read Redmond Magazine, Harvard Business Review, and attend PADNUG (Portland Area Dot Net User Group) meetings. I am an avid fly tyer and fly fisherman, I love to paint minatures, warhammer when I can, DnD every Sunday, I grow a lot of fruit, berries, and veggies, am studying Tae Kwon Do (should be black belt end of next year), and play all kinds of online games from of course Minecraft to WoW to League of Legends to Diablo. I livestream on Twitch.tv on my channel www.twitch.tv/livistos/. I kinda wish I made a CyberVic account when I first signed up. /sigh.