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== About Us ==
My name is Steve Kritzer, I purchased my first computer in 1986, with . With a 4 unit night school course in accounting and the help of the SuperCalc spreadsheet, I was able to integrate my [[Wikipedia:IBM PCjr|IBM PC Jr. ]] into my construction business. In the early 1990s, I became certified in Novell NetWare (3.x) and Microsoft NT Server 4 (Server and Enterprise Server). My employer hired me en-route to a bachelors degree, as I completed an Associate's of Science in Information Systems. My job duties included setting up modem to modem networks for a mortgage credit agency, bringing Internet and email to the Los Angeles Immunization Program, desktop support for JPL and DoD scientists and database integration for the California Department of Insurance CLO department.
In 2000, I became interested in browser security and did a deep dive into Microsoft's Internet Explorer. I offered software to mitigate the vulnerabilities that javascript introduced into the browser, but I quickly found out that nobody pays for software -- they expect it to be free. During the 2001-03 recession, I made the Dean's List while taking certificate courses in Oracle 9i (8 units), SQL Programming (8 units) and Visual Basic Programming (9 units). It was about this time that the Wikipedia was founded, I was interested in the project but did not get involved until I found an interesting subject who agreed to work with me in 2012.