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Who is Chris J Davis,or more information about me than you care to know.

Written in Plano, TX on December 3, 2004 and tagged with and

I am a Speaker, Author, Developer and Designer among other things. Unfortunately these terms do not define me, but describe who I am now.

Everyday it seems that I learn a new facet to my Chris-ness which of course usually either frightens me, or excites me; after 30 years, it usually just frightens me.

The Day job

Let’s see though. There are some things that I can answer. I live in North Texas with my beautiful wife Heather and my son Jakob (the cutest child in the world), and I am currently employed as the Director of Development for Blastoff Communications.

I am an international speaker on technology, having spoke at ApacheCon Europe 2005 in Stuttgart, Germany and at ApacheCon US 2005 in San Diego. Most recently I spoke at ApacheCon US 2006 in Austin, TX, in Amsterdam at ApacheCon Europe 2008 and most recently in Oakland for ApacheCon US 2009.

My life is surprisingly good, most days I can’t believe that I have been this lucky. We moved into our first “home we own” more than 5 years ago, but since the move to Texas, we have had some renters in it.

What is with this Orthodoxy?

I am a Reader in the Orthodox Church. The Orthodox church was established in the first chapters of Acts and continues today around the world largely unchanged. For more info on American Orthodoxy you can go over here, or you could always surf over there.

Here are some things I have said about my trek into orthodoxy:

  1. True Inculturaion and the Passions
  2. The Fast Has Begun
  3. Humbled and Thankful

Heather and I were part of a thriving, dynamic mission that seems to double in number every year or two in Kentucky. Upon moving to Texas we joined an Antiochian Parish in Dallas. I am currently training to be a chanter. I will be tonsured a reader sometime in 2009.

Any Education to speak of?

I attended Asbury College in Wilmore Kentucky where I studied Art and English mainly, with a little Media Communications thrown in for fun. My emphasis whilst studying art were Figure Drawing and Sculpture, although I dabbled in Painting and Photography as well.

My time there was a mix of miracles and purgatory, I was fortunate to study with some of the finest artists working today in any school or emphasis; but was forced to swallow a large amount of fundementalist ideaology.

Anything else, man you are wordy.

I am an avid Apple user, and love to introduce people to the Nirvana that is using a mac. I have written some software for the mac, OS 9 as well as X.

I have put that on hold for the time being as I have been pouring most of my (ha!) free time into helping to develop a new blogging platform Habari">Habari which powers this site.

I think that is enough for now.