I live in the US, married, and with four grown children. I do enjoy Astronomy, my vocation, and work a lot in the Planetary Sciences field. I have a telescope and when I have time, I enjoy taking pictures of the moon and planets. I am a systems and software engineer. I worked for IBM Systems back in the 80's until I joined a private chemical company where I have been for the last 30 years mostly managing technical teams responsible for Research and Development, Engineering or Manufacturing Automation. Privately, I've devoted great deal of time to writing astronomy applications. I went from being a hardware systems developer, to an applications developer, to a web developer, to a research developer and, during this time, I used many tools and languages. I started out with ASM/MASM and moved to C, then to C++ (my primary language) and from there to Basic, Delphi, Java, JavaScript, C# and some other more specialized languages like Fortran, Ada, Lisp, Python, etc. At the end of the day, I do this because I want my work to be useful to others thus I hope you will enjoy it. Thank you!