Robert Mangold

Robert began his IT career programming the Commodore 64, which his parents bought for him when he was in high school. He earned an electrical engineering degree via an ROTC scholarship, then served as a US Army Communication Officer. When his Army career ended, he spent time designing and building custom electrical devices, Novell network support, network engineering, Windows and Linux system administration, and computer security. He finally settled on software development, specializing in the creation of user interfaces using Adobe (now Apache) Flex, HTML, and JavaScript. His love of electronics never fully died, and the Arduino microcontroller is his new plaything.