About the author

Hello everyone.  Just a brief note about the author.  I'm currently employed by Intel as a software engineer here in Oregon.  It's been a long trip to get to this point, and had many twists and turns. 

I started life in rural Indiana near Lafayette and grew up in a big family of 10.  I attended Purdue University and got my bachelors degree in Computer Science in 1998.  I then moved to Oregon where I worked at Intel as a software engineer for 5 years (including internships).  I loved my job and worked in the Graphics and 3D technologies research group in Intel's Architecture Labs (IAL) before I started being tugging and pointed in a new direction.  I took 4 years off work to go do some spiritual growing in graduate school studying philosophy and theology. 

I just completed my 4th year of grad school and have returned to the software world.  I'm still not certain where this is all leading; but it has been the most amazing, challenging, fulfilling and growing experience so far.  My theological studies have put me on the front-page of newspapers, met people I'd never expected (including the pope), traveled to Europe and Mexico several times.  If you'd like to read about the journey so far, check out the emails from my ramblings section above.

If you'd like to email me do so here.  Be sure to put the @ sign back in for the (at) part [this thwarts spam bots that surf pages like this for email addresses]
matt.fife (at) gmail.com

 
 
 
 

Mount Rainer, Washington 2001

Here's a picture of me on a hike at Mount Rainer