About the Author
J. Robert Brown started his path to a career in software development by earning a college scholarship for Performing Arts in his homeland of central Ohio, where he held the misguided belief that he could be a movie star.
After years of either sleeping in his car or working three jobs concurrently to fund his way through an Electrical Engineering program, he found himself in Europe in the late 1980s working for the Department of Defense.
As a field engineer maintaining the mobile computer systems responsible for collecting and processing intelligence data, he realized that the position required too much manual labor. In 1991, he made his way through a Computer Science program at the European Division of the University of Maryland ...
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