Long ago and far away, in a time when storage devices were measured in megabytes, the manual for Paradox (for DOS!) still referenced Ansa Software and Excel came with "run-time" Windows...After attaining degrees in Chemical Engineering and Statistics (yawn!), Ken Lyle found a string of positions in which his title was like "Environmental Engineer," but convinced management to let him engage in his hobby, er...work...more like "Systems Analysis"...and interesting projects involving OCR, ISC, PCA, and other TLAs ensued.  After leaving the turbulent environmental industry, there was a cool GIS project for an emergency notification company, and a CUE before a Y2K project for DoD.  At least two of these projects he "conceptualized, sold, and implemented" yielded in excess of $1 million of sales or market value, but, alas, not for him.

In a demonstration of the wrong way to 'beat the market', he was one of the first Citrix resellers, *only a few short years* before Microsoft re-embraced the technology now known as Terminal Services and made it a core technology of the Windows Server line.

After a stint with a financial services startup that successfully emerged from the principal's basement to reach cash-out, Ken discovered Joomla's predecessor in the 2004 range. Ken now works to empower non-profits and small businesses via Joomla powered web sites and CRM.  He's been on the beta test teams for a few Joomla components, including Community Builder, and has made multiple presentations at CMSExpo.