An educator by trade, I was the ARRL Contest Branch Manager from September 1998 through May 2006, when I transferred to become the ARRL Regulatory Information Manager. I have been licensed for 37 years and at times have done most things in this hobby. Since I work at this hobby all day long, I don't spend much of my free time pursuing amateur radio interests these days. I contest some, DX some, and try to stay in touch with as much of the hobby as possible. My hobbies include computers, travel, reading, grazing on the Internet, golf, the WORLD CHAMPION Red Sox (danged I have waited my WHOLE life to say that - now I get to say it twice in four years- WooHoo!!!), the Fighting Irish, cooking and fine wines. The callsign is a vanity call to honor my alma mater - Number One Notre Dame.