Greeter Geek
Rick started doing database programming around 1984, long before there was Windoze (remember DOS?) and a bit before the term "geek" lost its pejorative. A former employee of Ashton-Tate (remember dBASE?), Rick came to the Santa Cruz area to work for Borland, when Borland acquired Ashton-Tate in 1991. He’s worked in Tech throughout the GUI and then the internet/web revolutions. Currently he can be found applying geek skills to working with real-world institutional data flows, as Institutional Research Analyst at Cabrillo College. On the side, he enjoys creating data-driven websites, or getting his hands dirty in his veggie patch.