About
So who am I?
My name is Marc Goodner, I’m married and have a son and twin daughters.
I joined Microsoft to work on web service standards as part of the Indigo team in 2005. These days I’m primarily working on security related web services standards, particularly in the WS-SX and WSFED committees. I worked for SAP from 1998 - 2005 in various technical capacities including consulting and mobile computing, the last three years of which I was in Palo Alto at SAP Labs working on web service standards primarily at the WS-I. I worked as an independent contractor doing ABAP programming for a little over a year before joining SAP. Prior to that I have worked in peripheral sales at Microcenter, Sir Speedy as a delivery boy and typesetter, retail sales of statuary at Architectural Revolution (it was part of the Alley complex in Chicago), UPS in receiving and sort, shipping at a comic book warehouse called Capital Cities, and at dollar and art theatres in various capacities ranging from concessionist to projectionist. I’ve probably forgotten some jobs, or I’m just not telling. OK, one example. I worked in a haunted house one year.
I live in Bothell (it’s north of Redmond), too far to walk to work but not too far to bike (if I would ride a bike). Originally I’m from Texas, my family is from the Amarillo area but I grew up on the coast before moving to Houston where I attended high school in the Stafford and Sugarland suburbs. I did a brief stint in community college there before heading off to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to do video and computer based art though I was accepted for my photography. I wound up dropping out of school partly out of my own concerns over financing, partly out of disillusionment. I did meet my wife in Chicago so it was worth it. I wound up apprenticing to learn ABAP from someone I met when I was involved with the Gurdjieff work there.
Most of this is worth reminiscing on and I plan to do so, I’ll add links to future posts about my background here in the future.