Casey W. Leonard

Need something built? What you need is an engineer...

From 1995 through 1999 I created and sold game modules for the Worldgroup BBS. Unfortunately, the BBS world was dying at the time and being replaced by the Internet. Oddly enough, my best selling products were modules for use in another module - In Game Modules for the Worldgroup version of Legend of the Red Dragon. Longing for these simpler times, a few years ago I made a JavaScript console emulator with ANSI code support and hooked it up to DOSEMU running a game of LoRD. You can give it a try if you want...

In 1996 I helped launch an Internet Service Provider in Lewistown PA. Our speciality was helping non-technical people get online, which meant that in addition to manning the storefront I also would schedule times to go over to customers' homes and personally set up their Internet connection. This was back when Windows didn't always have IE installed, or TCP/IP networking for that matter.

I got into the whole E-Commerce thing in 1999, developing the website for industry-leading retailer of Customizable Card Games, CCGZone.com. I kept adding features to the site up until 2001. We had amazing features for the time, like live inventory of thousands of single cards and an online trading system (sorta like a reverse shopping cart). Unfortunately, the CCG craze waned and the site no longer exists.

As a volunteer effort in 2001, I made an online premiums entry system and a thick-client management suite for The Juniata County Fair. This was the first completely online automatic premiums entry system in the state of Pennsylvania, maybe even the universe. Yes, you can really enter that giant pumpkin you grew all summer in the biggest pumpkin contest online. Maybe someday the pumpkins will be able to enter themselves, if they have mobile phones.

Since June of 2001, I've worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Raytheon in State College PA. I've been a lead software engineer on very, very large J2EE systems since 2005. Servlets, Session Beans, Message Driven Beans, all that.

As my free time allows I write a blog, Amphibian Abstracts, where I talk about cool things you can do with new software technologies. I build somewhat amusing things using those technologies and put them on my website.

I make fun designs which I then put on t-shirts, where frogs love science and are frustrated by Internet technologies. Oh, websockets!