The Team:

Reliant believes in having a small team of stars rather than having "bodies to throw at the problem". We stand behind all of our people.

Players:

• Joe Russo
• Mark "Oz" Bayne
• Mark Eslinger
• John Varga
• Neil McGuire

Neil McGuire

My programming experience dates back 15 years to the discovery of a book entitled “How to Write Your Own Computer Games in BASIC” with which I discovered that writing the program was more fun than actually playing the game. Since I was 9 yrs old at the time, programming shaped my logic circuits, creating me as the freak that I am today. It wasn’t long to move on from BASIC to other, tougher marks, like VBA, Perl, Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, and a bunch of other acronyms.

My wife has been very supportive through the two and a half years we have been married, nodding and smiling when I dive into “Of course! That Sub needs to handle Me.Load!” and the like. Of course, after a bit of time, she’s now understanding more than she would ever admit to.

I graduated from college with a Bachelors of Science in Actuarial Science, though have yet to do anything with it, as I much prefer programming to statistics. I have been professionally developing applications and websites for the past three years, and have a tendency to take it a bit further than is probably healthy.

I love programming because I get to see the computer do things specifically because I told it to. There isn’t much that’s more invigorating than a good late-night coding session with pizza and root beer. Of course, being on a good team helps a lot. That’s why I am so excited to be a part of the team here at Reliant.