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I am located high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, near the small rural towns of Rollinsville and Ward , which are about 25 miles west of Boulder. I am a self-employed consultant with massive experience in designing, programming, building, or managing of engineering projects, especially Linux projects, or embedded systems. I am also heavily into alternative energy technologies like wind and solar.

As a combination I've been working on designing and building various ideas I've had for off-grid housing. Since I own an off-grid house, I started with a sophisticated load controller (Linux & PC-104 based) for alternate powered housing. My goal is to be able to use much smaller and cheaper power production systems, by efficiently utilizing all the excess power to it's fullest possiblities.

During the design of my new Solar Lab, I got off on a side project, and wrote GnuAE. GnuAE is an alternate energy system sizing and design software. GnuAE lets the user select the various loads on a system, and then by selecting the various components of the system, calculates the quantity of panels, batteries, wire sizes, etc... This software is slowly being converted to a web based interface to make it more accessible to others, but could use some funding help...

Talking about projects that take over ones life... I started a Free Software project back in 2005 called Gnash the GNU Flash player. This is a standalone Flash movie player for embedded devices and standard desktop PCs that's also a Mozilla/Firefox plugin. That's kept me very busy till recently.