I know these pages are very out of date. Most were written in the late 1990s, and I think the last real update was in 2002. Sooner or later I'll get around to revamping these pages. See my blog for more up to date stuff.
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Greetings. I am the webmaster of the fogarty.org domain. I created this site to allow anyone with the last name of Fogarty to have a fogarty.org email address.
I also maintain the MuscleMemory website, an interactive database of historical bodybuilding contest information going back to 1930.
In real life, I'm a computer programmer, doing VMS and Unix systems programming. (I use to be considered an expert in VMS, but there is little call for that today.) I also do Java programming, including Swing, JSP, and Servlets. My most recent contract ended in February, and I've yet to find another. (That means I'm currently unemployed.) My most recent job was for a financial company in New York City, where I worked for 3.5 years before moving back to Los Angeles in November 2002. My job has taken me to Japan, where we created a new buisiness. I continued to work for the same company from home in LA for another 15 months. This worked out well with the time differences as I could easily support both the evening production in New York and the morning production in Tokyo. Unfortunately, the company is going on its third year of layoffs, so they decided they couldn't renew my contract.
My previous job was a little more exciting. For eight years, I worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where I got to participate in four space missions. From 1992 to 1995 I was the computer systems manager for the Mission Operations Team for the SIR-C project, also doing Fortran programming and Ingres database administration. After that project I created a relational database and a client / server interface for the Beacon Monitor Experiment on DS1. I also worked on Kidsat. If you're really interested, here is my resumé.
I was born in April, 1959 and grew up first in Jennings, Missouri, and then in Florissant, Missouri, both in the suburbs of St. Louis. Most of my family still live there. I have two sisters and two brothers (plus one half brother), as well as two nieces and five nephews, and as of July 30, 2002, one grand-nephew !
My brother Jeff and I have taken an interest in genealogy. Jeff likes to go to small towns and search through old church registries and county records. I prefer to search through on-line databases. We have recently discovered that some of our ancestors were part of the Jamestown Colony in the 1630s. That means we are 12th generation American.
I attended college at Purdue University in Indiana, and graduate school at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
I'm 5 feet 10 inches tall and weigh 215 pounds (at under 7% bodyfat). I work out one hour a day, five days a week. In Los Angeles, I have a lifetime membership at Gold's Hollywood, and a membership at Balleys. When I was in New York, I had belong to American Fitness before they were bought out, then Steel Gym in Chelsea, which is your normal tiny and expensive Manhattan gym, and then Big Gym (subtitled "Gimnasio Grande") in Washington Heights, which was pretty good at only $100 per year.
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