Okay. I am Pat Padgett. Forty-seven, Tampa Bay, Florida, by way of Camdenton, Missouri and fourteen years in a billing mediation cubicle in Overland Park, Kansas.
I ran dial-up ISPs as a teenager. I wrote a 291-line C program called corkscrew in the year 2000 and it is STILL in Debian, which is either a compliment to the program or an indictment of everybody who never replaced it. I spent fourteen years making sure Sprint billed the right people the right amount for the right phone calls, which is a job nobody outside telecom has heard of and everybody inside it is terrified of. I play bass. I have produced records in two languages. I met my favorite band and they turned out to be good people, which almost never happens.
This blog is the stories. Not the resume, that lives at work.patpadgett.com. The stories: the ones I tell at a bar when somebody makes the mistake of asking what I do.
I swear in here. Not constantly, but where it is the funniest word. If that is a problem, the resume site is very polite.
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