About

History
My interest in technology started in 1993 at age 11 when I met Tie Fighter. From there many other Lucas Arts games followed, and I wound up studying 3D Studio Max and AutoCAD in Highschool.

I studied Computer Science at the University of Missouri, Columbia. C was the first programming language I ever learned, followed by Assembly and Perl. When I wasn't having fun in college I took interest in web development and got a part time job doing html/css/perl for a local marketing group that owned several local radio stations and needed work on their websites.

After college I went to work for the Department of Insurance at the State of Missouri as a Lotus Notes developer, even though when asked in the interview I told them honestly that I had never heard of Lotus Notes. After a short while I had become the Lotus Notes developer, MS Access developer, and took over development/maintenance of the departments website.

While working at the State I got my first Apple computer, a Powerbook G4, and immediatly dove into Cocoa development using Objective-c and PyObjC. It's been my hobby ever since.

After 2 years I left the State job in 2006 for a position at Delta Systems Group as a web developer, where I still work today.

Education
Univeristy of Missouri - Columbia 2000-2004 Received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics. My other topics of interest were Psychology/Sociology and History.

Skills
Web-Standards development PHP and the Zend Framework PostgreSQL and MySQL Databases CSS Javascript (YUI and jQuery) Objective-c / Cocoa for Mac OS X desktop and iPhone development

Internet Systems Administration
Both Unix/Linux servers, Apache 2, MySQL and PostgreSQL database servers, Subversion (SVN) version tracking

Social
Flickr
Twitter
github
IRC: ctshryock

Personal
I'm happily married to a woman who is a far greater person than I. We enjoy outdoor activities like running, biking and walking our two dogs, Linux and Nero.