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David Sceppa grew up in the town of Westwood, Massachusetts, where he learned right (Red Sox, Celtics) from wrong (Yankees, Lakers) and idolized John Cleese. He was fortunate to live in a town with a public school system that encouraged him to develop strong mathematical and computer programming skills. While in high school, David worked part-time on a Paradox database system at Enterprise Leasing of New England, where he never thought the company would outgrow its (then) enormous 20-MB hard drive.

David attended Princeton University, earning a degree in mathematics and participating in the teacher preparation program. He spent summers developing and maintaining a FoxPro database system for a company that assembled circuit boards.

After graduation, David moved to the other end of Interstate 90—Seattle—where he briefly attended the University of Washington as a graduate student before accepting a job as a Microsoft FoxPro support professional. He later joined the Microsoft Visual Basic database support team and now acts as a technical lead, interacting with customers and development teams within Microsoft. David is also a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer.

David has recently discovered that he likes bebop jazz and that he can't keep a straight face while writing about himself in the third person. His long-term goals are to complete a marathon, teach mathematics to high school students, win an award for his world-famous chili, and see the Red Sox win a World Series.