I’ve loved technology for as long as I can remember.

My first computer was an Atari 800 that attached to our television and played programs from either cartridges or tapes the same form factor as audio cassettes. I learned to make a turtle walk in squares with Logo, built a Heathkit TV with my dad, and learned about circuitry with a 50-in-1 Radio Shack kit. I had a chemistry set and a physics set. Naturally, my Barbies drove Capsela tanks. I grew up building my own x86 IBM PC clones, playing Shareware games off of orange disks, and never being afraid of technology. I broke a lot of things.

In college, I studied math. My favorite topics were discrete math, mathematical logic, and theories of computation, like solvability. It kept my brain very busy, which I liked, and had no real practical applications if I didn’t want to go into academia. Thank goodness I got hired at Cambridge Computer, where I became an expert in backup software, finding it more useful professionally (but less fun) than the P/NP problem.

It was at this job that I met my (eventual) husband. Since then, we have pursued parallel career tracks in related corners of technology. He is one of the most knowledgable people I know when it comes to understanding industry trends and technology. Our two kiddos are growing up in this ‘stranger than fiction’ technology world, and we think deeply and often about how we are raising them.

My next stop was Dell, in both Sales and Marketing for enterprise products. I learned a lot there about operating at scale, and supported some of the best salespeople I’ve ever met. Following that, I took a role leading Product Marketing at Infinio, a software company in the VMware ecosystem. This blog started as a place to record my thoughts on being at a startup, being a marketer, being a technologist, and balancing this with a personal life.

After several years, I left Infinio to join Mendix, the leader in low-code application development, eager to get closer to business value, not just IT value. It was a great experience that led me to my next adventure in application development, leading Product Marketing at SmartBear.

For the story of how I got started blogging and why I called my blog “The Tablespace,” start at the beginning.

Below you can see two of my favorite comics.