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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I've been participating for a while now, but I don't think I ever introduced myself.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm Michael Tosh (I usually sign emails as and respond to 'tosh', although on occasion I may use 'oreomike' as my user/nick as a leftover from decades old account names. It was a homage to the cookie, not the informally-referenced ethnic group.)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I work as a software developer for Lockheed Martin in New Jersey onsite at the FAA Technical Center. (The next time you fly overseas, know that I helped write/test/implement the Air Traffic Control system used to keep your plane away from other planes, and Bugzilla is used to track any problems with that system.) I'm versed in many networking technologies and scripting languages, and recently have become a Perl advocate for mini projects around our lab.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I had created a highly-customized version of bugzilla based on 2.22. During that time I had learned much of the bugzilla flow and code, and now that we have migrated to 3.0, I have found most of the customizations were included and those that weren't I've been working to have included in newer Bugzilla versions. (Allow range searches of bug numbers, single-select custom fields for selecting custom user roles, default CSV output to use customized field names, cleaning up editmultiple for people with per-product editbugs.)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I enjoy helping others work through problems by responding on the support list. It is a good distraction from the monotonies of my real job. I'd love to participate more, but my level of participation is limited by the workload of my regular job, so sometimes I can do a lot, and sometimes not so much. I also cannot access any IRC discussions from where I'm at, unless I am working from home and have a second computer laying around to use, so I can only be reached via email.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">--tosh</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Elephant">Michael J Tosh</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Software Engineer</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Lockheed Martin, TSS<I></I></FONT>
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