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About Me
As a lifelong technologist, I was exposed to computers at an early age, learning how to program on various Commodore and Apple computers. I also excelled at mathematics and ended up teaching both starting in high school. I obtained degrees in both math and computer science plus a minor in music, all while teaching on the side. Education became a parallel career path for me as I have taught for three different University of California campuses. After spending some time as a network engineer at Sun Microsystems, I joined a small company named Four11 and was exposed to Python for the first time in 1997. It was here that we built what was to become Yahoo!Mail using Python. Since then, I've been working full-time using Python as a software architect for 14 consecutive years.
As a new Python enthusiast, I had been seeking a great book to learn the language from, but nothing like that existed at that time. Not being able to resist scratching my own itch, I wrote Core Python Programming, a combination of a comprehensive textbook as well as a pseudo-reference to help programmers learn Python as quickly and as in-depth as possible. Unlike other trainers out there, I bring to the table an unbeatable combination of being an experienced engineer that has built software used by millions, 25+ years of teaching experience, and being a published author of three Python books. In my comprehensive courses, I bring all of this to bear to provide the best possible Python training and software engineering in the market today. (resume)
About CyberWeb Consulting
CyberWeb was created to coalesce my worlds as an engineer, a technical trainer, and an accomplished writer. Since I started CyberWeb, I have taught delivered several hundred Python public and private training courses, seminars, conference sessions, user group talks, etc. Through CyberWeb, I have taken on various consulting contracts as a code reviewer, part-time developer, and technical writer and editor. If you have requirements calling for a Python expert, we hope that you'll have us on your shortlist. Nearly 15 consecutive years of full-time Python development has given me the insight and best practices that would be hard to find elsewhere. At CyberWeb, I put all this experience to work for you: I am a great writer and passionate teacher who can turn technology and complexity into language easily digestable by everyone.
