About Me

barn I grew up in Valley City North Dakota where I attended Valley City State University. I was married to my beautiful wife Dorinda in 1987. We moved to the Twin Cities shortly after we were married where I attended Brown Institute. I am very proud of my education at Brown Institute. I achieved a 3.94 G.P.A. and graduated with honors.

Dorinda and I live in Andover Minnesota now where we own a home and are busy raising a family. We spend a lot of time together as a family. We enjoy activities at our church, camping, traveling, movies and of course going out to eat. I have been playing guitar for ~30 years. While guitar is my primary instrument, I also play the drums, bass guitar and tinker with many other instruments. I enjoy making music and currently play with my church band. Over the years I’ve been in several other bands. My guitar of choice is the Fender Stratocaster and I play it exclusively. I enjoy playing R&B and classic rock.

My Professional Background
Throughout my career I have been fortunate enough to work for top notch companies! In the beginning of my career at Honeywell I specialized in CAE Automation and CAD System Development. I programmed in C and UNIX shell script to automate the Electrical Engineering and Production Build processes. Eventually I was promoted to Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator. I began applying my UNIX programming skills to CGI, Perl, JavaScript, Active Server Pages, Coldfusion and other types of web programming. I helped pioneer the web environment at Honeywell and in 1995 the Application Development Group at Honeywell hired me as the primary web developer and web server administrator. In 1999 I joined Park Nicollet, where as Web Manager and Sr. Web Architect I transformed Park Nicollet's web presence by developing numerous web applications, content management solutions, e-commerce sites and patient-related sites. From there I moved to The Wall Street Journal Digital Network where I spent several years as the Software Engineering Manager for MarketWatch.com. Currently I'm at Shavlik Technologies where I am the Director of Web Services. Please take the time to view my LinkedIn site for more information - http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulolstad.