I still think it is amazing. After eight months with the Treasury Board, I moved onto a contracting position with Northern Telecom in a wide-area networking department. I wore a suit to this job too but the suit got dirty most days. Fiber is a great idea too. I had such a good time at Northern Telecom that I was going to settle down for the long haul when an opportunity came up to work for Microsoft in systems and development tools marketing.
Operating systems are amazing.
Microsoft is an incredibly influential company and getting an inside look into how they work was fascinating. I got to do some really cool things too, like learning the IS needs of major corporate customers, traveling the country on speaking tours, and working with the Canadian IS press. When I first designed this page, I omitted details of my pre-university education. Despite that gap, Victoria Ritchie, a classmate from my junior high and high school days still managed to find this page and e-mailed a hello. So, for the benefit of the various Internet search engines, I started school at Makiling Elementary School, in Los Banos, Philippines, then when to Nikwala Elementary School in Penticton, B.C., Canada.