Fizz

Location: Allen, Texas

Occupation: Software architect

Family: Married 21 years to high school sweet heart. 16 year old daughter who's a Black Belt Martial Arts instructor in Tang So Do, and Brazilian Jujitsu. The house stays busy with 3 Dogs (little yappy ones), 1 rabbit, a fish and depending on the time of year 50-70 butterfly chrysalises.

History: Navy brat born in Great Lakes IL in 1964. Moved around a lot including 4 years in Japan in the early 70's. Ended up in Northern Arkansas (Gods country for sure). BS in computer science from Harding University. Started with EDS right out of school and have been there ever since but now it's EDS, an HP company. I support our backup and storage folks in there efforts to manage many peta bytes of backups and main storage.

Hobbies: DIY ambush jobs around the house. you know the kind... This will be easy.. and save loads... hmmmm that's a problem...

I also REALLY like to snow ski which is bad if you live in Texas. Started skiing about 5 years ago as a chaparone for a church ski trip. The church his since exploded but the kid and I get to go once a year to somwhere high, cold and fast and it only takes 14 road hours to do it...

I've been playing FPS's since early on. Got really hooked on Bungies Marathon series. Then played Doom, Quake, Jedi Knight series and now Halo/Halo2. Net play is my favorite way to play, nothing like matching wits with humans.

Name History: Played as Shadow for years but when the internet games started there were LOTS of shadows. Had a pseudo halo clan with some guys from work called tOg (the OLD guys) and we double monikered by tags and names with two z's. I picked Fizz because it reminds me of beer. If i ever change the name I'm thinking of using ATOR, because my favorite beers all end in ATOR... salvator, optimator etc...