Troy Harlan
Contents
Troy Harlan
-
TheInfovore
- Name: Troy Harlan /
: @TheInfovore - Location: San Francisco, CA
- Email Address:
- Occupation: PeopleSoft Consultant
About Me
My wife Julie and I moved to Portland from San Francisco in October '07. We've since moved back to San Francisco in September of 2010. We love to travel and to ski (alpine - not any of that cross country stuff).
I grew up in small town Indiana. Two of my grandparents were Amish, but I was more into the pies and trampolines at reunions than horse and buggies, etc. I played all kinds of sports growing up, but only when my parents could yank me away from the Atari 2600 or Commodore 64.
Apparently I like to move or be on the move since graduating high school I have (thanks mostly to work) lived/worked in the following cities (in order):
- West Lafayette, IN (college)
- St. Louis, MO (3 college semesters for engineering co-op)
- Houston, TX (2 college semesters for engineering co-op)
- Chicago, IL (Home '97 - '99)
- Munich, Germany (4 month project)
- San Francisco, CA (Home '99 - '07)
- Houston, TX (2 year project)
- Detroit, MI (5 month project)
- Memphis, TN (5 month project)
- New York City, NY (4 month project)
- Miami, FL (4 month project)
- Fargo, ND (4 month project)
- Portland, OR (Home '07 - '10)
- San Francisco, CA (Home '10 - present)
Social Network Identities
Every social networking service I participate in, including Twitter, can probably be found at my Google Profile page.
TheInfovore
My social networking nickname is "TheInfovore" because I like to consume information. Lots of it. Apparently it's in my personality, so more often than not I can be found reading about one of the following topics:
- Tech
- Product Management
- The housing bubble, bust, and ensuing financial crisis
- Evolution
- Evolutionary psychology
- Evolutionary biology
- Economics
- Politics
- Brain theory
- Portland
- Portland's tech peeps
- The world's's tech thought leaders
News/Blog References
Education
- Bachelor's of Science degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Purdue University
