Staten Island N.Y. native Patrick Davila was first introduced to computers
at the age of 11. His first computer was a Commodore Vic20 that he shared
with his older brother and eventually got a Commodore 64 and then
graduated to an Amiga. As a kid he started programming in Turtle and Basic
"to challenge myself". While a finance major at Seton Hall University, Pat
worked as a lab assistant in the university computer center. After working
in the operations area of a major brokerage in NYC for a couple years
there was an opportunity to learn COBOL and mainframe systems programming
through an internal company initiative. Around 1994 he started to get into
Unix operating systems while supporting applications running under Solaris
and Sco Openserver. He received a unix/C++ certificate from Pace
University in 1997. In 1998 Pat started working on his masters degree in
computer science at Seton Hall University. During this period Pat
installed his first linux distro, Red Hat 5.0. After getting married in
2000 Pat moved into the Lehigh Valley in eastern PA. He currently runs a
mix of Ubuntu, Debian and Arch Linux on his computer systems. MythTV is
his favorite Linux application and has become the centerpiece of his home
multimedia setup. On the mobile front Pat is a huge fan of the Android
platform and has become an advocate for its adoption. Outside of
technology Pat is a huge soccer fan and enjoys spending time with his wife
and children.
