About
Here, you will find all you need to know (well, all that I'm willing to share) about Damon Gentry.
I was born and raised in (and near) Shreveport, LA. I have 2 sisters, and one step-sister. I was always a bit of a geek in school: band, debate, computer team, etc. However, I was also very social, and made friends easily, even with the non-geeks.
I joined the Air Force shortly after High School and spent 2 years in Merced, CA. During that time, I applied for, and was accepted to the United States Air Force Academy. I spent 2 years there as a cadet, working towards a Computer Science degree before I accepted an early out offer during the early months of the Clinton administration. After leaving the Air Force, I moved to Tacoma, WA to chase down a girl I had just met a few months earlier.
While in Tacoma, I got my first job in Information Technology. I was a Novell Netware administrator for a small insurance company. In 1995, I married Heather and we moved to Nashville, TN for a better job opportunity. There, I began working with PCs on a Windows NT network. I also began dabbling in HTML and all that new 'web' stuff. By 1997, I had earned the title of 'webmaster'. It was then that I began working with ColdFusion, a web application server / scripting language that is still paying the bills to this day.
In 2000, shortly after the birth of our first child, Heather and I moved back to the Pacific Northwest. We now have 3 children and have settled in quite happily in Beaverton, a suburb of Portland, OR. We are both very active in our parish and the parochial school that our children attend.
I currently work at Oregon Health and Science University as the Senior Web Engineer. Recently, I started running to lose weight. I've caught the running bug and hope I can keep it for many years to come.