Mike Carter is an computer and electronics engineer with 26 years of experience. A relative newcomer to .NET, Mike's past lives saw him working 'to the metal' in C and C++ in firmware and embedded system development. An avid amateur scientist and freelance photographer, Mike divides most of his free time between his Lab and the backwoods of Oregon. As most of Mike's former and present collegues would quickly attest that if anything ever happens in his research Lab, the whole world will not only know about it, we'll hear it too.