{"id":2,"date":"2007-08-29T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T20:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:29:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"3\"\n\t\t\t    align=\"center\"\n\t\t\t    valign=\"top\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/me3a.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t     alt=\"John J Schultz\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/john.joseph.schultz\"\n\t\t\t\t   target=\"_blank\"\n\t\t\t\t   rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ico_facebook.png\"\n\t\t\t\t\t     alt=\"Facebook\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"\n\t\t\t    valign=\"top\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/users\/1160929\/john-j-schultz\"\n\t\t\t\t   target=\"_blank\"\n\t\t\t\t   rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Profile for John J Schultz at Stack Overflow\"\n\t\t\t\t\t     src=\"images\/stack-overflow-logo-off-black.svg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t     alt=\"profile for John J Schultz at Stack Overflow, for professional and enthusiast programmers\"\n\t\t\t\t\t     width=\"208\"\n\t\t\t\t\t     height=\"58\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"\n\t\t\t    valign=\"top\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rambotech?tab=repositories\"\n\t\t\t\t   target=\"_blank\"\n\t\t\t\t   rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"github.com\/rambotech\"\n\t\t\t\t\t     src=\"images\/GitHub_Lockup_Black_Clearspace.svg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t     alt=\"Open source code I have written, for professionals and enthusiasts\"\n\t\t\t\t\t     width=\"208\"\n\t\t\t\t\t     height=\"58\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"\n\t\t\t    valign=\"top\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/u\/johnschultz\/profile\/\"\n\t\t\t\t   target=\"_blank\"\n\t\t\t\t   rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sourceforge.net\"\n\t\t\t\t\t     src=\"images\/sflogo.png\"\n\t\t\t\t\t     alt=\"Open source code: Weed Killer, Folder Manifest, Bulk File Rename\"\n\t\t\t\t\t     width=\"208\"\n\t\t\t\t\t     height=\"58\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>My name is John J Schultz. I am a software developer who began writing code at the age of 12, and I have over 40 years of combined code development and systems experience on Windows, Linux and some other platforms now found only in antique shops, museums or even eBay. I also worked for two years as a software engineer at Google in Pittsburgh. The bulk of my development expertise is on the Windows platform, but I am also a huge fan of software interfacing with hardware&#8211;and I have 13 Raspberry Pi and Libre Computer single board computers to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to computer programming languages, I also am fairly fluent in three foreign languages: German, Russian and French. My wife, Heidi, is a native German speaker who also speaks some French, Yugoslav and Hebrew, and studied Latin.\u00a0 Because of this, our two sons and our daughter have no problem getting confused.<\/p>\n<p>I am also a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brewing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zymurgist<\/a>, enjoying my amateur status.\u00a0 You can read about my adventures with the &#8220;Yeastie Boys&#8221; in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=19\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Home Brew<\/a> tab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is John J Schultz. I am a software developer who began writing code at the age of 12, and I have over 40 years of combined code development and systems experience on Windows, Linux and some other platforms now found only in antique shops, museums or even eBay. I also worked for two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3226,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}