The Economy: Were mistakes made? Are the mistakes being compounded?

• Karl Denninger, in his exceedingly direct fashion, says yes, and he presents interesting evidence.
• A chart from 11/26/2008 summarizing many of the federal expenditures.
  

News

Old news can be found on the news.htm page.

Résumé

See the Résumé Main Page for my résumé.

Contact Information

http://www.derkits.com/

dderkits@alumni.caltech.edu

Find me on Orkut and LinkedIn.

Resources

• My IT Advice page.
• My Windows ntbackup-based batch backup script.  See the IT Advice page (scroll to the bottom) for a description of this script.
• My Journal of occasional updates.
• MailStreet for Exchange hosting.
• My hobbies:
  •  Naval History: The Ships I've Seen
  • Computers and Computer Water Cooling (CWC)

Background

2008(Apr)-present:

2007(Nov)-2008(Mar): Job search

2007(Jan-Oct): Sabbatical in Richmond, VA (worked on Personal ToDo Items; some IT Consulting)

2004(June)-2006(Dec): Information Technology (IT) Consultant (full-time, independent practice) (Los Angeles, CA, area)

2004(Apr-May): Vacation on the East Coast

2000(Apr)-2004(Mar): Director, Information Technology, Idealab (Pasadena, CA)

2000(Jan-Mar): Manager of IT Operations, iSpheres (Oakland, CA)

1998(Jan)-2000(Jan): Manager of Desktop Computing Support, Information Technology Services (ITS), Caltech (Pasadena, CA)

1996(Jan)-1998(Jan): Associate Computing Analyst, Information Technology Services (ITS), Caltech (Pasadena, CA)

1992-1995: Undergraduate, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (Pasadena, CA)

1988-1992: Student, Yorktown High School (Arlington, VA)