My name is Markus Beamer. Iwas born in Tacoma Washington but was raised in Columbia South Carolina. I comefrom a family of 4 boys and 2 girls and thus am used to a very hecticenvironment. “Never a dull moment” is certainly the motto for our home growingup. That’s probably why 11 years ago I turned to technology for a career,“Never a dull moment” sums up its progress quite nicely.
During my college years, at the College ofCharleston, my first exploration into technology was as a web developer for asoftware licensing firm. I started out typing HTML and Javascript into a simplenotepad window. Through the years I touched upon CSS, Java, Visual Basic, PHP,mySQL, Photoshop, Access, Oracle and MS SQL Server in that exact order.However, I find it quite amusing that to this day when I want to write a bit ofcode I reach for my notepad application first…no matter the language. Needlessto say, I found a love in technology. No matter how much I knew, I never wasbored, as something new was but a day away. Change was always going to come.
Of course change can come when you grow thefamily. Currently my family is in Charlotte North Carolina. I am the luckyhusband to one fine lady and the proud father of two rambunctious boys. I amhappy to say that my household carries on the tradition of “Never a dullmoment”. My oldest son is crazy for electronics and all things technical. Myyoungest son is definitely the outdoor, rough and tumble kinda fella. They bothattract their fair share of friends and our house has become the “neighborhood”house. (much to my wife’s dismay!)
I currently work at Bank of America as aBusiness Process Consultant. When asked, I tell friends and family that my roleis to help “leadership” make the best use of technology and in truth this iswhat I do. However the role affords me much more than that, I am at a crucialnexus where the needs, desires and ambitions of the business meet thecalculations, formulas and algorithms of technology. It’s a great place to beand I don’t think I’ll change it for some time to come.
But...
At times one gets bored with the day to day. Itis in those times that I turn to my hobby of game building. Like most hobbiesit is silly yet fulfilling. I build small games that can be played in a browser;my specialty is to build them with JavaScript so they do not require anyplug-ins or downloads to play. Sometimes the games are role based, sometimesthey are card based, other times they are …different. I have been doing thissince 1999. I laugh when I think of the number of games I have written andthrown by the wayside (at last count 24). But that is what a hobby is…a wastedtime that allows the mind, body and soul to reset.
I hope that having learned a little more aboutme, you will reach out and shake my hand. I am always happy to meet new folks.