Bob, present day

2004-Oct: Not quite an annual update, but for an important reason: I left Compuware to come to Microsoft on the Visual Studio Extensibility User Education team. I'm back on the West coast and once again indulging the wordslinger muse.

2004-Jan: Yet another annual update...I'm now the release engineering technical lead for all the products at Compuware's NuMega Lab. That includes DriverStudio, DevPartner Studio, DevPartner Java Edition, and other products yet to be released. 

2003-Jan: I've successfully avoided the urge to blog by not updating this page in two years. In fact, the only reason I'm updating it now is that someone pointed out that a link to a now-defunct former employer is now a porn site. I wouldn't want anyone to misunderstand my past Web-publishing experience...

These days I'm a release engineering techincal lead for Compuware's DriverStudio products. I spend most of my time deep inside Windows Installer and Perforce. When I'm not busy keeping the products building and installing, I'm working to convert our automated build system from batch files to Python.

2001-Jan: I'm happy to announce that as of the last week of the old millennium, I'm back haunting the halls of Compuware's NuMega Lab in Nashua, New Hampshire. Yes, they worked with me for a year and a half and they hired me back anyway. Go figure. In fact, they hired me back not as a technical evangelist, but as a software developer.

I'm back to being a professional geek, so my résumé remains out-of-date and my employment pleas are gone.

The History of Bob, Part I

For the sanitized, employment-oriented version of my past, see my résumé. The reverse timeline version:

2004: Join Microsoft.

2001: Re-join Compuware NuMega.

1999: Leave Compuware NuMega to join In Publishing.

1997: Move to New Hampshire when magazines acquired; laid off when PHBs shut them down.

1993-1995: Leave Borland; write several more books and magazine articles.

1989-1990: Write first and second books, thus setting in motion career throughout the millennium.