Kevin Neal Carpenter This is Me

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1. 1. Kevin Carpenter's Home Page

   www.seaplace.org/~kevinc - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/5/2000   Last Visited: 12/27/2007

   Kevin N. Carpenter's
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   Preparation for construction started immediately after Kevin moved in on July 10th, 2003, when we placed the first coat of Rustoleum basement epoxy on concrete to protect it from any future salt spills. By Thanksgiving of that year, Kevin (with lots of help from his generous neighbor, Kevin Pastor, and several others) had finished the basement sufficiently to start construction of the tank proper.
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   Kevin Neal Carpenter was born in late November, 1958, in Southern California. He was raised there until his parents moved to the St. Louis, Missouri, USA as part of the McDonnell & Douglas Aircraft merger (now merged with Boeing) in 1970.
   
   Kevin started working for a plant nursery when 14 years old. Around 1975 he discovered computers, using a teletype at his High School to interface to an HP-2000E computer. By 1976 he was hooked, and started his career in computers that year. Since then, he has been a help desk person, 370 Assembler coder, PL/1 coder, VM and DOS/VSE Systems person, UNIX Systems Admin, SAP Infrastructure support manager, UNIX team manager, Director of Technical Services responsible for all NT, UNIX, and Mail systems across North America for his employer, and currently the Senior Technical Architect for the same company he has been at for about 20 years.. He has been involved with the Internet since the days when it was primarily a UUCP connected network. Yes, he remembers when Gopher servers were REALLY cool and FORTRAN compilers required TWO! 360KB Floppies.
   
   Kevin entered the salt-water aquarium hobby in 1981 with a 135g fish-only tank. That tank was converted to a mini-reef in 1992. The following year Kevin built his first large tank, a 720g monster called Zilla by his friends. A persistent leak (1 quart a day) combined with a desire to have a more efficient water movement system and a need for easier maintenance convinced Kevin to demolish Zilla and make room for Zilla II.
   
   In November of 2002, Kevin started the process of having a new house build in a St. Louis suburb known as O'Fallon. Of course, the house has a few minor modifications for the then planned Zilla III! Shortly after moving in during July of 2003, Kevin started preparing for his largest tank to date: Zilla III - a 5000 gallon monster.
   
   Kevin is a fairly avid PC gamer, enjoying games like Wing Commander, SimCity, Civilization III, Dungeon Keeper II, Diablo II and the like.