Zim

This is my biography. It needs work.

I am the webmaster of downsyn.com.

I am married to Michel, the most wonderful woman in the world, who puts up with me through thick and thin.

I have a wonderful teenage daughter who makes me proud.

I have a 12 year old son who has Down syndrome and autism.

I love both my children with all my heart.

I am old, probably older than you. I have been a professional computer programmer since 1979.

I worked in the World Trade Center from 1986 until 1996. I loved working there. I worked on the 70th floor of Tower 2. I was there in 1993 when the first attack on the WTC occurred.

I started my Down syndrome web site about a month after Mikey was born. It served two purposes: 1) to help me cope with all the new information I was learning by giving me a place to record and categorize it and 2) to share that information with other new parents who were in the same boat as me. At the time there was very little information available on the web so I wanted to create a resource. The original site was on GeoCities which had very strict monthly bandwidth usage and the site was soon reaching that limit by the end of each month. This happened when I added the first board to the site. I moved the site to another free provider and then ultimately registered the domain downsyn.com and put the site up on a regular, paid provider.

The main site has not been updated in several years and could use some enhancements. The current forums were installed in the summer of 2006. I have spent most of my effort on improving the quality of the forums and very little time on the rest of the site.

Some odd looking guy

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