Alex can be seen in the wild in the Seattle/Renton area, working on her laptop to optimize user experience for a top-5 social network.  Occasionally she leaves the work environment to forage for books or good food. 

Alex migrated to the Pacific Northwest from Texas early in 2008. She is in love with the nearby active stratovolcano known as Mount Rainier, which can be seen from Seattle.  There are no volcanoes in Texas, although there are tornadoes and mountains.  She shares living space with her husband, Bart Odom, and various non-human friends. 

Her background includes:

* Taxonomy guru.

* Information architecture, usability, graphic design, web analytics, etc. since 1998.

* Working on online databases since 1991.

* Learning programming on punch cards in the early-to-mid eighties (Cobol, Pascal, FORTRAN, BASIC). A smattering of Java and Perl picked up in the /90s.

* A summa cum laude degree in psychology with heavy concentrations in biology and computer science.  Someday she'll get the neuroscience/A.I. PhD of her dreams, but for now she's a User Experience manager :-)

* Writing.  Alex has two published (and paid!) fiction shorts. Someday there will be more.

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