Brian is an electrical engineer by training and career. He graduated with a BSEE from Penn State because he wasn’t going to go to college with the same group of people he’d gone to primary school with for 12 years and he graduated in about the middle of the GPA pack because by gods he was going to have fun in college. He earned his master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder because he did not want a PhD.
Since entering the workforce, Brian has worked for a couple of telecommunications equipment manufacturers until the telecomm bubble popped and took Brian with it. He now works in aerospace in the Denver metro area and enjoys it a great deal more than he did telecomm, even if he does have to deal with the yearly stress of “is Congress going to fund my project this year?”
Brian’s passion and frustration is to be a writer of speculative fiction, especially science fiction, but he’s using lack of time and energy due to having two small children as an excuse to not submit any stories for publication for fear of being told “your stories suck, go away and never submit anything to me again.”
Brian is also a webmaster and blogger, having founded The Daedalnexus and its associated blog, Thoughts in the Daedalnexus, and having co-founded the Livejournal community The 5th Estate and now Scholars & Rogues as a means by which to better the world (or at least the United States). He’s also an avid anime fan and is the webmaster of one of the better Bubblegum Crisis anime fan sites, MegatokyoBGC.net.
Brian is married to a California transplant (as he is himself, although he considers himself a Colorado native) and has two children and two cats, all of whom have good Irish names. He can be found volunteering up at the Estes Park Long’s Peak Scottish-Irish Highland Festival.
One of Brian’s favorite quotes of all time comes from George Orwell’s 1984: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.” Brian has only rarely been accused of being too upbeat and optimistic.
Brian is also pretending to be the sysadmin for scholarsandrogues.com.
