Jeff Saxe

I'm the Network Engineer at Crutchfield Corporation, an excellent mail-order and Internet retailer of car stereo and home theater components and accessories. <shamelessplug> They're a recognized industry leader in car audio -- order a stereo and speakers to replace your wimpy factory radio, and they'll include a free installation kit with faceplates, mounting hardware, snap-on wiring harness, and instructions specifically for your car. You get do-it-yourself savings with professional-looking and -sounding results. Call 'em today -- 1-800-955-3000! </shamelessplug> And please do look around their Web site -- I'm very proud to be part of the team that keeps it running smoothly.

I am proud to have passed the certification tests necessary to be declared a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE). I am CCIE number 9376 (ooh! ahh! a four-digit number). If you have any networking projects that require the assistance of a smart, dedicated person with good technical chops, thorough understanding of network protocols and behavior, and excellent troubleshooting skills, go ahead and contact me.

At work, I used to use a Macintosh Quadra 700 with a 17" color monitor (still waiting patiently for that 17-inch PowerBook), but currently I use mostly Windows and Linux machines. At home we have an oldish Power Mac G4 running the beautiful and functional Mac OS X. But I'm a network engineer, so telnet / SSH is a universal language, right? At a former job I used a Macintosh Quadra 840AV with terrific digital audio features (at the time), so I recorded a visitor welcome greeting and converted it to RealAudio format. Note that your machine must be properly configured to recognize and play RealAudio. Long live the Macintosh and its computing legacy! Computers should be fun, easy, and pleasant to use!! And by the way, MacGurus is a great place to buy RAM, hard drives, and other things to put inside and next to your Mac.

Laura and I have a son! Nathaniel Quinn Saxe was born April 11, 1998 here in Charlottesville. He's incredibly sweet and clever. He attends Baker-Butler Elementary School and loves it.

Hey, several years ago I won a car in a promotion sweepstakes! Laura and I drove across this great country (from Seattle, south along the coast to San Francisco, then more or less eastward back home to Virginia) in our new '95 Nissan Sentra. Here's a picture of me with the car; you can't see the license plate, but it now reads "PERL ROX" (and Perl certainly does). Please check out DealerNet's Web site; tell 'em I sent you. I heard about the contest in an electronic magazine called WEBster, but I believe it's defunct now.

I went to school at the University of Virginia (mathematics distinguished major, chemistry minor, class of '89). I appreciated the academic freedom of the Echols Scholar program.

Contact me at work:

• +1 (434) 817-1000, extension 2111 (voice)
• +1 (434) 817-1010 (fax -- who uses fax anymore?)
• jsaxe--at--crutchfield.com
• 1 Crutchfield Park, IT Department, Charlottesville, VA 22911 USA

Contact me at home:

• +1 (434) 974-7233 (voice)
• jsaxe--at--mac.com
• 3739 Burnley Station Road, Barboursville, VA 22923 USA

I'm very proud of my brother, Andrew Saxe, who after graduating from NYU has jumped into the motion picture industry with both feet. He's been some variety of location manager for a number of films; you can search the Internet Movie Database to find many of them.