Biography
General Info
My name is Jason Bock. I was born on 03.09.1971 (which makes me
39
years old), and I was married on 09.20.1997 to Elizabeth Myers:
We have two sons, Hayden and Ryan, and we have two cats, Tweak and Mittens. I'm
5' 11'', 225 pounds and I have big feet (you know what they say about guys with
big feet ... they're great guitar players. I know, I don't understand the analogy
either ...)
Education
I grew up in the wild and wacky town of Oostburg, WI - consequentially, I got my
high school diploma at Oostburg High School. After considering an attempt at becoming
a music star (which resulted in a good-natured intellectual slap in the head from
my parents), I realized that the world of music does not lead to a steady paycheck
unless you have connections and/or you're extremely good. Therefore, I decided to
attend Marquette University. I must have enjoyed it so much (or I just didn't want
to deal with the real world for a while - take your pick), I got a bachelors and
masters degree in electrical engineering.
Work Experience
I'm currently employeed by Magenic
- I've been there since Nov. 2000. Feel free to hop around my site (especially the
resources page) for more details on my technical experience
and achievements.
Related Links
I'm involved with other sites in different ways. Here's a list of links to those
sites:
Interests
My main interest are music, reading, software development, bicycling, and golf.
Technical Bio
Form time to time, I'm asked to provide a techical biography. So (primarily for
my own purposes), I'm adding it here so I can easily give it to someone. Here it
goes:
Jason Bock is a Principal Consultant for Magenic (http://www.magenic.com), a Microsoft MVP (C#), and an INETA
(http://www.ineta.org) speaker.
He has worked on a number of business applications using a diverse set of substrates
and languages such as C#, .NET, and Java. He is the author of "Applied .NET Attributes",
"CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET", ".NET Security", and "Visual Basic 6
Win32 API Tutorial". He has written numerous articles on software development issues
and has presented at a number of conferences and user groups. He is a leader of the Twin
Cities Code Camp (http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com)
and runs the Twin Cities Languages User Group (http://www.twincitieslanguagesusergroup.com). Jason holds
a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University. Visit his
web site at http://www.jasonbock.net.