User:Funsocaltiger

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Laurence was born in Singapore in 1977, later lived in Herndon, Virginia from 1978-1986 and then in Diamond Bar, California from 1986-2006. As of June of 2006, Laurence resides in an unincorporated area outside of Corona in Riverside County, California known as Eastvale, California.

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[edit] Politics

Favoring neither the major Democratic or Republican parties, his political views can be best described as Capitalist and Libertarian.

[edit] Education

Laurence graduated with the class of 1999 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara.

Laurence obtained his High School diploma in 1995 from Diamond Bar High School.

[edit] Professional Certifications

[edit] Career

Laurence began his career in Software Development and Information Technology at an early age. Laurence founded an unofficial DBA named Maartian Enterprises, a software development company, at the age of 11. Maartian Enterprises released several MS-DOS-based games and applications as well as three BBS door games: Death Warrior 28000 A.D., Smurf Combat and Tazmanian Strategical.

[edit] Smurf Combat

Smurf Combat was developed using Borland C 2.0 using the OpenDoor software library. Modeled after Food Fight (BBS door), Smurf Combat achieved small success.

[edit] Tazmanian Strategical

Tazmanian Strategical was developed using Borland C 2.0 using the OpenDoor software library. A multiplayer, turn-based, ANSI-based, space-age political and military empire simulation, Tazmanian Strategical received little recognition though it was the most complex DOOR game Laurence produced.

Tazmanian Strategical operated in a similar fashion to simple modern web-based MMORPG games. The player took command of an empire which had a quantitative amount of resources (land, population, money) and military units. The goal was to obtain the largest amount of profitable land either via development (terraforming and improvement of non-productive lands), discovery or military conquest. Tazmanian Strategical was highly complex in that it had a large number of military units with varying offensive and defensive parameters which varied depending on the unit's interaction with other units and role in an attack (whether attacking, defending or retaliating.)

[edit] History

During college, Laurence was a software developer intern at QAD, a Computer Science grader at UCSB and later a software developer intern at Alliance United Insurance Services.

In 1999, Laurence accepted an offer by Alliance United to continue as a full-time employee. Laurence's primary role was the development of ASP web-based internal and POS applications as well as C/C++ database and flatfile bridge applications.

In 2005, Laurence accepted an offer by FocusFrame, Inc. as a Software Test Engineer and rapidly obtained proficiency in software testing disciplines and technologies including Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner and QuickTest Professional.