Mark Cecil:
CLASS OF 1987
Southwest Guilford High SchoolClass of 1987
High point, NC
Andrews High SchoolClass of 1986
High point, NC
High Point Central High SchoolClass of 1986
High point, NC
Northeast Guilford Middle SchoolClass of 1982
Mcleansville, NC
Shadybrook Elementary SchoolClass of 1980
High point, NC
Mark's Story
Life
Living in New Orleans, a town especially well suited for me...
I spend a lot of time these days behind a camera, and I hope soon that habit will become a self-supporting one. Not too long ago, made my first public showing at the NOMA in a show for unrecognized photographers ("Underexposed"). I managed to sell enough to recoup the cost of the show, so that's good, right?
Married a beautiful Greensboro girl in '92. Divorced in '98. She's still beautiful and sweet, and I do talk to her from time to time. However, the remainder of my love life has been the ever-popular "quagmire" ever since. But, I think that's beginning to work out, and perhaps I'll get settled back down soon.
Workplace
As many may suspect, I went into computing... (While I am, in fact, an accomplished cook, the picture you see in my profile is me in a chef's jacket that a good friend gave me as a gift. Quite flattering, if you must know.) I have been involved as a large-scale UNIX administrator for most of my career, and have added to that a total-system engineer/architect role for the last several years.
These days, I work for the Navy on the lakefront of beautiful Lake Pontchartr...Expand for more
ain in New Orleans, where we are building the payroll and human capital management system for the entire US military. Sure... Sounds pretty dry, but it's very much an exciting thing to be part of (let's see *you* design a system that calculates and cuts paychecks for 3.1 million people in six hours!). It's a good gig particularly here in New Orleans, which is not exactly Technical Mecca.
Prior to that, I spent a couple of years at The Shaw Group, Inc. as their lead UNIX guy. Before that, two years at Sprint E|Solutions as a travelling consultant, which, frankly, I miss. I love airplanes, airports, hotels, and all the fresh faces that go with those things. Damned tech crash!
Back to 1995, when I moved myself and my soon-to-be-divorced wife, Ashley McAdoo, here to New Orleans. I worked for Tulane University for almost five years, and would probably still be there if there was such a thing as a competitive wage in academia.
Prior to New Orleans, I spent three and a half years in Huntsville, AL with the Army Space and Strategic Defense Command, running their couple of Cray Research supercomputers. A really cool job for a guy that baseically knew exactly squat.
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