* Regional Sales Manger for Lyons Magnus ( California based Foodservice products manufacturer)
* Ultra-light backpacking gear manufacturer (from recycled materials using non petroleum based fuels)( Hobby scale home company);>)- yeah-- mo-go-gear.... go figure
* lever espresso machine test driver
* I love to build, design and tweak things( prior lives in restaurants , firefighting and automotive )

What i do...i am a professional coffee drinker! However, during the day and of course some evenings, all depends on the election cycle, I am a Project Director for a political advertising firm in DC....so yes soon the no sleep and drink coffee all day will begin yet again.

I now manage a bunch of talented engineers and have been away from doing any real design work for quite a few years. Some of the remaining creative urges (those not stomped out by doing admin work) are channeled into cooking, gardening, and trying to transform green beans into heavenly espresso.

So what's your opinion of Misha's? After a multi-year break, I'm actually starting to like the lattes again.

Do you know John F, the guy who rides the scooters?

PM sent.

Javier

Software architect here, whiteboards, hand waving and tiny bits of code for a large Systems Integration and Hosting company. I've been doing it (IT) for about as long as I've had my Elektra.

Pretty interesting. As for me, I've spent the last 21 years fighting fire in the City of Buffalo. Also retired from USAFReserves as a Korean linguist.

For the last 13 years have owned my own business which provides outsourced network and computer management to small businesses. In previous lives was a rural and inner city minister and spent 20 years as a social worker developing support, foster care and treatment programs for "at risk" teenagers.

I'm a barista at the local shop Coffee Matters.

However, I am still in university to become a mechanical engineer.

I wish there was more money in being a barista, I'd love to continue it..... I still might.... who knows!

Am I the only banker in here? I won't bore you with details, but in general my job is managing relations with other financial institutions, more specifically other banks from certain OECD countries. This covers the (usually) bilateral view on both the selling and buying of the full products/services spectrum.

In addition to the enjoyment, hobby and passion aspects of coffee it is also something more hands on that balances things out for me.

Br,
Teme

Concrete, sand and gravel industry. Started as a truck mechanic, now company president. Picked-up a B.S. in business along the way.

Motion Picture and television Film Editor.

I'm a full-time+ student. I'm an undergrad at University of California, Santa Cruz, studying theoretical/descriptive structural blah blah blah linguistics. It's more than a full time job, that's for sure! I have one more year of undergraduate work before I take on graduate school.

For summer work, I'm back at home and helping my mom's cousin build his ~6,500ft^2 dream house. I helped him with the same project a while back, now I'm at it again. When the grapes on his property are ripe, he's going to teach me how to make wine. He makes a wicked cab, and some nice sour cherry and persimmon dessert wines.

Nice to see a couple of other film and T.V. guys here....

I'm a motion picture and television camera assistant. In charge of making sure the cameras are working as they should be and troubleshooting when they don't. But the most challenging part is keeping actors in focus. As my father, a film director coined the phrase when an actor asked a "motivation" question, "hit your mark and bark!".

Cheers,
Kaelin

buzzmccowan wrote:In charge of making sure the cameras are working as they should be and troubleshooting when they don't.

Sounds like my job - I'm equipping and supporting film students at the local university.

After hours I love to play with one of my way to many projects. Things like hot rodding my old beetle into a mobile coffee bar or motorizing my hang glider (Not that I'm this play full http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdq4RNEtPQM - we just don't have any mountains in Denmark ).

After having finished my degrees in technical chemistry and technical sciences and a very brief university career, I've spent most of my life as a software developer and IT-consultant in my own business.

Aside from that I've recently opened a - very small - speciality roasting business as a second profession. With my son lending me a hand in the IT business I might be able to concentrate even more on the roasting business ... well, as soon as he's finished his degree at university anyway...

Engineer for a "system-integration" company. Actually, I'm the manager of a sales-engineering department.

For residential projects, we design and install high-end whole-house music systems, home theaters, control systems (to make most everything that has gets power far easier to use), etc. Fun stuff (especially compared to a previous stint designing combat communication radios and missile guidance systems for Hughes Aircraft Co.). We're also involved in commercial and retail projects (including all Virgin Megastores throughout North America).

Hey Dan, can I make a plug for anyone wanting to live in Southern California who's interested & experienced in audio, video, and/or control systems (especially AMX and Crestron) to contact me?! Okay, maybe that's not appropriate.

Lawyer in a UK corporate finance law firm - have to travel quite a bit in Europe so can test out their coffee cultures. Can't believe there is only one US lawyer here given the amount of coffee those guys drink! Originally come from NZ where coffee (and the All Blacks) is king, hence the interest.

Cheers
Andrew

I also work for IBM. I'm a Lotus Notes Application Developer at IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC. I also do some development work using Rational Application Developer and Eclipse

I am a network Engineer who specializes in network design and installation in the US as well as EMEA and AsiaPAC. I have spent quite a while developing this skill have have taken it to several companies with sites around the World. I work on Microsoft networking, including MS Exchange (I know, what comes next... ) I also work on VoIP phone systems and Nortel PBX systems.

I am currently in a company that doesn't care too much for the employees' palate; they serve this over-rated, over cooked, cheap quality dribble and call it coffee. I have worked for a company that had a Keurig and another machine similar, not bad but far from great.

Growing up I was a typical American, drinking gallons of bad coffee thinking it was the thing to do. Then I traveled to Europe and had my eyes opened, by both the flavor of the coffee and the strength. Ever since then I have not been able to enjoy "regular" coffee; except for the single cup filter I have.