Hello folks, my name is Edward Reese. The head behind Codisha. I work on computers more as a hobby but it is becoming more and more of a job. I am taking on more outside work and now am at a point where I even consider doing this fulltime and lay my primary job to rest.

I have been around and about computers since the tender age of 8, when my mother bought our first computer. It was a Commodore VC-20. Good old times. Within less then a year we upgraded to the well known C-64. It was love at first site. I learned to write some "Basic" code and started to write small games at the age of 10. I was into "Kraftwerk" and played their album probably about a 1000 times back then. Lol.

I was into Electronics and Mechanics early on and started to take apart remote controlled cars and put them back together. With the intention to tune them up of course. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't but I was quick to adapt and learn from my failures.

After completing Highschool I started an apprenticeship training to become a Communication Electronics Technician with Deutsch Telekom AG in Frankfurt/ Main, Germany and completed it. Yes, I am originally from Germany. I was born and raised their and came to the U.S.A. in 1999. I was then 23, going on 24, so you make the math.

After High school I was drafted to the German military and completed my service.
It was a good, trying time and I gained experience and many live lessons from it.

I then went on to school, a vocational school to become a Computer Service Technician.
Here is were I learned more in depth many of the things I learned in my apprenticeship training. Microelectronics, microprocessors, logics as well as Turbo Pascal and Fortran.
It included also Novell NetWare and Windows NT 4.0 networking technologies.
This is where I discovered my love for networking.
The school ended after one year and I was finally looking for a real job.

A few interviews later with mostly smaller companies I find myself in a big conference room at Samsung Electronics German Headquarters.
The Managers, one German and one Korean, interviewing me. I was excited but had no doubt that I would not be selected. After an hour of grilling me I get a smile and a "we will be in contact with you Mr. Reese". I still had doubts, now probably more them before.
Two weeks later I get the call to come back in. This time to negotiate and sign the contract. It was like going to Disneyland for the very first time.
I started the nest day as a IT Support Technician. A three man team. The two managers and me. Soon I found out what the corporate world was about. My first experience, not a pretty one.

Being in that environment made me realize that I had a tremendous amount of technical knowledge but totally neglected the rest. After some turmoil between me and the German Manager, the Korean Manager sat me down and asked when I was ready for the corporate world. My answer was "I might never be". I was still very young (21y) and angry at the time. He understood and was taken by my response.

I decided to leave the company as long as it is in good terms and go back to school, college this time. I did well but live was haunting me and my personal thoughts and believes would not let me rest.
I decided to visit the United Stats, to meet my father and his side of the family which I had never met. It would be a lifetime experience. Four weeks with people that are closer to me then anyone else and that I don't know.

I left on march 21, 2000. 23 years old with no more then a sea bag and a thousand bucks in his pocket. Not only to a different city or country but another continent. With no more but a few very old letters to go by and a phone call from very old men who clams to be my grandfather.

Today (2010), ten years later, I am still here. Have two beautiful children and a spouse that very dear to me. This is home now even thou I still miss many of the things in Germany. I am still in close contact with my sister and her son, my nephew and also some old good friends from there. The Internet is amazing and makes it possible.

I now work for the Walt Disney Studios where I work as a Dispatcher.
I also almost completed 8 years of service to the US Navy as a reservist where I was a Network Administrator for most of the time.