You may have used one of more than thirty technical courses and manuals I developed for institutions such as American Express, AT&T, Novell, Mountain Fuel, Caldera, BYU and Jostens.

While doing that writing, I also learned to work with databases to track software applications and versions; customers; customer needs and comments; documentation issues in multiple manuals being written; document versions; and error messages.

I preside over the TechVoice Identibase product and research. We search the universe looking for new software products that are installed on business networks. We collect information about these products and sell it to companies who develop network management products.

I've been working with Dave as a principal of TechVoice since 1998.

Writing and working with databases have been my career, but photography has been my love. My father was a photographer, and I spent some of the best times of my childhood helping him in the darkroom at home. I had a Kodak camera when I was six and my own 35mm camera by the time I was twelve. Our family vacations always yielded many slides and photos of the places around the country that we visited. After my father's death, we realized that with our family members scattered all over the United States, we each wanted to have copies of those family slides and 16mm movies. In addition to those pictures, Dad had spent two years in Germany just before World War II, and he had incredible shots of Germany, the major landmarks, and of the political regime. Afterward, Dad was drafted into the Army and worked in Washington D.C. to develop and print many of the pictures of the war and other events of that time. Many of those photos are used in today's text books. We have original prints of those pictures.

Since our family also loves computers, we decided to make the investment to convert all of those photos and slides into digital files. Now the quality of those precious pictures is not only preserved, but we restored some of the pictures, digitally, to good-as-new.