People Pictures

Mentors

• Tim Philp

  Tim Philp founded the Brant FreeNet, where I spent much of my free time in highschool. Tim had a bent for the liberal arts, and would often sing verse and recite poetry in the office. He spent at least two years teaching me how to pronounce "attribute" correctly. (I would always put the wrong emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble.)

  The university can also blame Mr.Philp for sending them Mike Gevaert (ENG/COM) and Liam Quinn (CS/SE).

• Doug Suerich

  Doug Suerich founded BlueNexus Software Corporation. While I was his employee, Doug afforded me a great deal of trust and responsibility within the company. Most of his job specifications were: "I want this. Make it happen."

  BlueNexus is now defunct. Shortly after George Blake died his estate cut funding to his incubator companies and they rapidly imploded. George Blake, a BCE executive, was the BlueNexus angel.

Favorite Professsors

• Serge D'Alessio

  After three years in the program, Serge D'Alessio was the first math professor at UW to remember my name. He also entertained some of my wacky notions about space-time geometry in MC 4045.

  Imagine yourself in 3-space with an object. Rotate that object along an axis in the 4-th dimension. What does the projection of that object back into your 3-space look like?

• Shirley Lichti

  Shirley Lichti founded Marketing Magic. She teaches BU 352 (Marketing 1) at WLU, where she won the 2002 Laurier Outstanding Teacher Award.

• Mark Arnason

  Formerly of Andersen Consulting and of CrossWorlds, but now of Big Blue, Mark moonlights as the MTHEL 400 (Entrepreneurism) instructor. In the term that I took this course, the special guest lecturers were Joe Natale (Piller, Natale, and Oh), Kevin Kimsa (Solect), Bill Tatham (Janna), and Len Adams (Magna).

BlueNexus Staffers

• Brock Dodgson (right), Lead Programmer
• Laurene Dong, Marketing and Technical Writing
• Mike Giles (left), Lead Programmer
• Peter Hood, Programmer
• Mark McCans, Programmer
• Doug Suerich, Executive
• Rachael Ward, Office Manager

Extraordinary Co-Ops:

• Steve Cutler, Programmer
• Angela Nuhn, Testing and Support

6 Willow Road

• Greg Hughes and Elizabeth McCleod
• Greg Hughes and Elizabeth McCleod
• Scott Seager and Elizabeth Layton
• Scott Seager and Elizabeth Layton

10 Hidden Court

• Liz and Darik
• Liz and Darik

Waterloo Wireless

• Ross Jordan with the Kegtenna.
• Dan, Ian Howard, Marc Duggan, Bill Permute, Tsu.
• Brian Johnson, Bill Permute, John Sahas, Marc Duggan, Mike Gevaert.
• Front: Dan Colquhoun, Shawn Winnington-Ball, Allen, Dan, Tsu. Back: Cynthia Carefoote, Joe, Mike Grabowski, Darik Horn, Ross Jordan, Jesse Rodgers.

Vanity Shots

• My personal workspace, in all its pristine glory.
• The parents' basement.
• Mini-golfing. You can't tell, but I'm wearing my EFF dog shirt.
• BlueNexus 2nd anniversary party.
• Scott Seager (jsseager), Greg Hughes (gl2hughe), and Darik Horn (dajhorn) at the Churchill grad party.
• "Thanks, Wayne!"
• Ryan Harrison and Darik Horn at the last Annual Dr.No Memorial Party.
• Having a beer in Harry's Basement.
• Demonstrating meander coil winding technique to Dan and Tsu at the Waterloo Wireless antenna workshop.

Darik Horn <dajhorn at uwaterloo dot ca>