I attended the Bernard J. Golden Elementary School, which was named after a former mayor (1920's) of Woburn and built in the mid-fifties of tan brick. I attended it for six years. Some time after I left the school, it was torn down and replaced with an office park.

When I was 12, we moved from the rather rural Woburn to busy, suburban, West Newton, MA. I first attended the Frank A. Day Junior High School, which was converted to some other use some time after I left, and then the Newton (North) High School, the three buildings of which were torn down some time after I left.  See the pattern yet? Fortunately, it seems to have stopped there.

Next, I went off to the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. I studied architecture and industrial design over a period of two years. They didn't tear the school down after I left—in fact they have added many buildings to their campus.

I jumped from there to working at Verne Q. Powell Flutes, Inc. in Arlington Heights, MA. I worked as a headjoint maker and a lost-wax caster for seven years before leaving to head north with my new wife to Vermont to work at a new flute company. That venture lasted a couple of years before dissolving in a legal morass, and that's when I turned to the Dark Side: Computing! I got a job at a startup computer retail store called Universal Micro Systems in Waitsfield, VT. My first daughter was born in between these two jobs, so, while I was looking for work, I was fortunate enough to have been able to spend a lot of time with her.  A year in sales and two years in service later, we moved to the Upper (Connecticut River) Valley area in Fairlee, VT to work at Geographic Data Technology in Lyme, NH. (It's now Tele Atlas, a TomTom subsidiary in Lebanon, NH, where I later (2008-2009) worked again!) My second daughter was born at home after my first year there. We bought our first house in West Fairlee, and I spent a couple of years fixing it up. My wife and I divorced—I moved to Lyme, and my ex-wife and daughters moved to Charlotte, NC. About a year later, I met my present wife, Lynn, at GDT and we moved to West Lebanon, NH, where we still live (and work: Lynn Ted). We married in Hawaii, on Oahu. Six years later (GDT had grown from 19 employees to about 150), I moved on to Tally Systems in Lebanon, NH. (which became part of Novell until they closed this office in late 2008.) Seven years after THAT, I became the webmaster and Photoshop/Frontpage trainer at Systems Plus Computers, just around the corner from Tally Systems.

In the fall of 2001, I ramped up my formerly-part time web design business, Hieronymus Group, to full time, and changed the name to TJ Imaging. Every seven years or so, I seem to need a change. So, in January of 2008, I chucked the self-employed life for the corporate cubieland again, back at Tele Atlas. That lasted for only two years, and so now I'm looking for work along with 150 others who were also laid off from the company. You've reached the Present!