About Elf M. Sternberg:
In my more mundane existence, I am a professional UI developer with a deep interest and twenty years of experience in deploying stateless industrial user interface control panels for Internet appliances, along with more traditional Web Design deployments. In 1993, I left a lucrative job writing MicroFocus COBOL/DB for a Wall Street consortium to get on the Internet bandwagon and spent five years working for CompuServe where I led development on websites for Oracle Magazine, Pacific Power and Light, The Cobalt Group, Baywatch Television, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, GenieLift Hardware, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. I spent two years with F5 Networks as a console UI developer, and now work for a major storage systems provider as their lead UI technologist. In my spare time I have helped develop websites for the Karen Keiser for Senate 2006 Campaign, the King County Domestic Violence Awareness Walkathon, and I provide systems administration and maintenence for MacBroadcast and iGameRadio. I have also taught "Basic Internet" for South Seattle Community College.
I live with my beautiful and talented wife of twenty years, Omaha, and my two frighteningly smart children known only as Kouryou-chan and Yamaraashi-chan, in a lovely home nestled in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. Like every good Seattlite, I have a backyard garden and a composter, although it seems sometimes that I was put on this Earth to kill plants. Readers fascinated by the more domestic parts of my life can read all about it in my livejournal page.