I'm a graduate student at the University of Washington in the <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/mef//">Department of Computer Science and Engineering</a>.  I grew up in Germany (near Dsseldorf), and spent a few years in High School in Princeton, NJ.  I received a B.A. in Computer Science from Rutgers University in 1992 and spent several summers at <a href=http://www.research.att.com>AT&T Bell Labs</a> and the <a href=http://www.mitre.org>MITRE Corporation</a> working on a range of projects.  I'm the sole proprietor of <i>MEF Systems</i>, a company that I created in December 1993 to sell a distributed, fault tolerant, IP network based telephone system that I built from scratch on a set of VME chasis with 680x0 processors, using <A HREF="http://www.inea.com/uv/">UniVoice</A> telephone interface cards and the <a href=http://147.11.1.23/>VxWorks</a> operating system.</P>
