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So who is this Andy character, anyway?

First and foremost, I am the husband of podcast producer and columnist Lydia Leitermann. I’m also the Chief Technology Officer of Timcast Media Group. 

I’ve had a deep love for technology since I began programming games in QBASIC on MSDOS, and I’ve dabbled with programming ever since. I fell in love with the open source movement around the same time I installed my first Linux distribution on 3.5” floppy disks. I’ve been fascinated with information security ever since I saw members of the L0pht testify in front of congress that they could take down the internet with just a few packets.

But somewhere along the way to college I became fascinated with the medium of motion picture, so I earned my bachelor’s degree in video and film production. I moved to Colorado after college, and worked as a freelance videographer for a while before ending up as an audio/visual engineer for events. I found myself gravitating toward the IT side of A/V, so I took night classes to study IT and Information Security. I got a job working as a technical support engineer for a line of Linux-based LTO tape storage servers. I debugged spaghetti code, wrote automation scripts, and I loved getting up to go to work and solve interesting problems everyday.

Since then I’ve worked with technology in various different capacities, but it was my love of aggressive inline skating that ultimately brought me to Timcast Media Group. One fateful day my buddy Brett Dasovic mentioned he was offered a trip out to skate at the Cast Castle, and I talked him into letting me tag along. We traveled to Maryland and skated there over the weekend and apparently things went well, because Tim hired us both on the spot. My diverse range of experience in video production, audio engineering, A/V, IT, and Information Security all seemed to line up perfectly at Timcast (not to mention my extreme blading skills), and I guess the rest is history.