Sketching and Painting

I grew up watching cartoons. I still remember those happy days of Saturday morning cartoons. I was so obsessed with cartoons that I wanted to create one myself so I started with drawing. My dad bought us a lot of books for learning how to draw. Starting with those then I started trying to draw cartoon character while it was on TV. As you know that in TV the characters keep moving, but I still managed to capture the character on paper. I had a 2 200 pages book full of cartoon drawings which I saw on TV and drew.

Ulead Video Studio, Adobe Premiere, Windows Movie Maker

Having a huge collection of video cassettes and home videos on a video camera let me to copy all the videos to a digital format when we got our computer. After accomplishing the Analog to Digital conversion of the video, I got interest in cutting out some unnecessary parts in the home videos and to add some special effects to them so I ended up learning video editing and did a lot of special stuff using my imagination like creating a double role of me, adding special effects to a screen, adding overlays, etc.

Yahoo Blog, Blogger, Basic Text (HTML)

I have always liked and wanted to share my experiences with everyone so I started blogging. Blogging makes me feel connected to people and makes me more expressive.

Play and Test

My first video game was ATARI 2600 (1990 - 1992). I didn't even know what a video game was back then. Then we got a SNES dupe called Media Wiz Kid. It took cartridges as input. Later on we as we became more aware of the video games capabilities we ended up buying almost every console in the market. Me and my brother had the greatest time playing co-op games and awesome one player games while watching each other play.

We have owned and played these videos games (sorted in ascending order of buying date):

Since the day I got my first PC, I have been very curious in technology which in turn made me a computer geek that I am. I have been opening and fixing electronic gadgets and computers since a long time now. I love to fix technical problems without taking them to the technician. This interest of fixing and building computers turned into a hobby of mine and since then my friends and relative who know about my interest have been asking me to assemble them a computer and fix some computer problem etc. and I love doing it.

Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop pro and a few other image editors

While working as the Technical Specialist at Campus Recreation at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (May 2007 to May 2009), I learnt using Adobe Photoshop within few days and helped out the Marketing Staff with their designs and soon got hired as the Marketing Staff where I created Brochures, Posters, Banners, Flyers, Ads using Adobe Creative Suite 3.

Some of my work  are as shown below:

CVS, Team Foundation Server, SVN, Git

After years of working on code and making constant changes to site, I was introduced to version control systems like CVS and TFS. As I learnt the importance of the version control systems, I got deeper into the system administration and management of it and then learned the other more modern versions of it like SVN and Git. I have been lately using Github as the primary source control system and have been contributing to various private repositories for private projects.

Apache, IIS, Domain Management, Web Hosting, Cloud Service Management, Virtual Machines, Windows and Linux, Security

 I have been working on Windows since the days of Windows 95 and worked with every flavour of windows and also played with every free version of Linux OS. I consider myself a advanced windows user with deep knowledge of windows administration and features. I have setup PCs with multi boot OSs and managed partitions on FAT, NTFS and other systems. 

Excel, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle

I, since my childhood, had a good habit of keeping everything organized and orderly. I used to help my mom clean the house and put things together. I had an interest in collecting whatever interested me. We had a big load of comic books, story books, audio cassettes, video cassettes, CDs (After 1998), DVDs (After 2000) etc. that I liked to make a list of along with some attributes like where it is and what label number it had etc. which would make it easy to search for it.

HTML, ASP.net, Coldfusion, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, VBScript, DHTML, JSP, J2EE, CSS, AngularJS, ReactJS

During my schooling, lot of things led me to develop a website. So I learned HTML and started developing websites. Then as the days passed by I improved my web development skills from static pages to dynamic pages using Javascript, VBScript, J2EE, JSP, ASP.net, Coldfusion, PHP.