J.N.Shaumeyer: Profile

My personal history has been one of productive conflict between my right brain and my left brain. From my earliest days I've been simultaneously drawn to the arts and the sciences. Following college, where I majored in music, math, and physics, my left hemisphere dominated and I went to graduate school in physics.

My academic training and early scientific career coincided with the dawn of personal computers, which were quickly pressed into service in the lab. I programmed them to relieve me of as much scientific drudgery as possible.

This early familiarity with the scientific use of computers held me in good stead when career projects saw me developing computer systems that could autonomously operate an advanced scientific experiment on the Space Shuttle, and, later, run extensive self tests on the new computer brain of the Hubble Space Telescope. (Details are in my resume.)

Naturally, with all those computers sitting around the lab, there was more to do with them than just collect data. All of this predated the emergence of the Internet by several years, but we were pioneers in early word processing, typesetting, and graphic design by computer.

When the ARPA-Net finally transformed into the Internet and the phrase "dot-com" still hadn't entered the vocabulary, I started to learn about HTML and this World-Wide Web stuff (which, remember, got its start in a high-energy physics lab in Switzerland!). Lots of words and lots of web pages later, I'm finally acknowledging the contributions my right brain has been making to my career all along.

It's my belief that my creative & artistic side, and my scientific & analytical side make an unbeatable team when it comes to producing the best writing and web and print design for my clients.