User:Paustin
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Paul Andrew Austin (born November 25, 1967 in Lawton,Oklahoma), is a software engineer at IBM. He currently lives in Ossining, New York.
Paul was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, at Reynolds Army Hospital in Fort Sill. His father soon received orders to move to Taipei, Taiwan when Paul was 8 months old. Paul's parents and four siblings spend over three years there. Among his first memories are being chased by a dragonfly and seeing old battlements on the beach in Taiwan. Paul's parents then moved to Fort Sheridan, Oklahoma for a year. His father was discharged by the Army a year later, and his parents moved the family to Syracuse, NY, where he attended school in the Liverpool Central School System. Paul graduated in 1985 and tried one semester studying Medical Lab Technology at Onondaga Community College before moving on to Writing at the State University of NY at Oswego.
Graduating in 1989, Paul applied for work at IBM and became a technical writer. He has tried his hand at Customer Service as well, and now is a software engineer on the test team for z/TPF systems.
Paul married Lori Golding in 1992. The two met in college their freshman year and dated for many years after. The couple first lived in Danbury, CT, together, then moved to the Hudson Valley of NY. Paul and Lori divorced in 2004. They share custody of their one and only child, Finnegan Andrew Austin. Finn was born in 2002.
