Family
Jag's two recent family vacations have been to this Latin American country, to the Amazon delta and Galapagos Islands.
What is Ecuador? My sister and her husband live there.
Jag's high school classmates were particularly diverse in this way.
They were from 103 countries.
Before DevOps and Platform as a Service, Jag's career was focused in this area of business software.
What is Business Analytics?
Jag has a slight phobia for this because of what happened to his house twice, in his childhood.
Slight fire phobia because our house caught on fire twice when I was between the ages of 7-9.
Jag met his wife when he assembled a group to plan a trip to this famous national park in the US.
What is Yosemite National Park? She was visiting from The Netherlands.
Infamous Commencement Speaker: Jag's High School Commencement Speaker was this infamous dictator of The Philippines
Who is Ferdinand Marcos?
Jag met twice with this well known high tech CEO, and both encounters were a bit strange.
Who is Larry Ellison?
Jag played this instrument in a high school band.
What is electric guitar.
Jag's two children got their genes from their mother for this trait, cause it sure didn't come from Jag.
Both are athletic.
Lucas: soccer player, coach
Julia: competitive dance
Jag's High School graduation gift was this vintage item, made from parts scavenged from various parts of the country.
What is a vintage car (1929 Chevy)
After Business School, Jag almost moved to New York to work in this industry. In hindsight, Jag is very glad the job offer fell through.
What is investment banking?
What was Jag doing when he was arrested and later released?
He was at a nightclub in The Philippines and there was a police raid that targeted a narcotics ring.
Jag and his wife chose this unconventional approach to educate their children.
What is homeschooling?
Jag put himself through Grad School, and being broke, he converted this enclosed structure into a makeshift room where he could live quite cheaply.
What is a greenhouse?
The first money Jag earned in the US was when he complained about a ditch outside a gas station, and the owner payed him to fill it up. How much was he paid.
He was paid $30
Jag is not the most athletic person, so he's extremely proud of having hiked up these two mountains of modest elevation.
1) Mount Batur (Bali): 5,600 ft
2) Shilthorn (Switzerland): 9,700 ft
Jag's uncle was a huge influence in Jag's career choice. At the age of 8, Jag was awed by the computers he saw at this prominent company, where his uncle worked.
What is IBM?
Infamous Commencement Speaker: Jag's Grad School Commencement Speaker inspired the character of Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street.
Who is Ivan Bosky? Ivan Bosky was convicted of insider trading, imprisoned for 3.5 years and fined $100M.
Jag seriously looked into evangelizing this carbon negative substance that is very beneficial for soil microbial health.
What is biochar?
Jag is fascinated with this interdisciplinary science that combines elements of biology and psychology.
What is neuroscience?