I’m Andrew Kember: Christian; husband; father; son; techie.
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Techie Problem Solving
I offer a technical support service to home users and small businesses. Find out more about it here.
Work
I like developing in Python. I'm starting to release some of my projects to the community. I hope other people find them useful. The first project to be released is called Treasure Hunt. I use it to write treasure hunts and quizzes for my family.
At work I spend my time developing performance tests for our IT service management software. I help out by overseeing the use of the VMWare servers we use for automated builds, functional test and development.
Test system development and management gives me the opportunity to learn about lots of different aspects of developing and deploying our software: Getting to know Oracle, DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server; configuring JBoss and Websphere; setting up load-balanced clusters; understanding how to write performance tests with Rational Performance Tester to simulate tens of thousands of users — and getting the best out of our software stack to pass the tests.
Life
I love tinkering with computers and teaching people to use them.
I enjoy reading my Bible and books by people who know the Bible better than me. I like sci-fi and crime thrillers. I listen to Snow Patrol, U2, Miriam Jones and Mozart. I watch CSI, House, Burn Notice and My Name is Earl.
I love spending time with my daughter, playing games, running around and teaching her silly dance moves.
I love doting on my wife: Supplying her with caffeine, helping with her projects and unwinding with her in the evenings.
I'm a Christian who can't do anything to deserve God's grace, so I'm taking His freely offered gift in the sincere hope that Jesus has died to pay the penalty for my sinfulness and beaten death: Resurrected, renewed and alive forever in a perfect relationship with God. He said I can have that too, and so can you.
© Andrew Kember 2001-2010