I work as a senior applications programmer/analyst at the Health Management Research Center of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. I've also worked as a software engineer and lecturer in the computer systems group of the Computer Science department of Indiana University and as an independent computer contractor in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. I was born and raised in Jamestown, North Dakota, USA and educated at Jamestown College and Indiana University.

• Accept my online business card, to add to your address book, if you wish [vCard].
• Contact me by email.
• Find my current U-M office, where I keep close tabs on the temperature, or my old IU office, the likes of which I may never see again.
• See me in various digitized images, or images of my places.
• Hear me ramble on about the Internet and email in 1994 for the IU News Bureau Radioline, doing my part then to overhype the "information superhighway". [.au, 1.3 MB, 2:48]
• View my résumé (resume) or my publications list, some surprisingly off-topic.
• View my geek code, the hackers' personality meter.
• View my work page (ie, my link garden) or my bookmark page, crufty and unorganized as it may be.
• Browse my Unix/X11 home directory for useful scripts and configuration files.
  • vshnu, webrowse, z, align, xtitle
• Learn about the Kinzler name and other early Kinzler's on the Net.
• Study the access statistics and hit report for my web pages. (out of date)
  • Explore my access statistics for 1996, 1997 or 1998. [VRML]
  • Study the link reports or the Alta Vista link search for my web pages.

Some things I work(ed) on

• the HMRC Web HRA, secure online health risk surveys used by employees of General Motors, IBM, Xerox, etc worldwide (1998-)
• Unix server administration for the U-M Health Management Research Center (1997-)
• Website design for the Center for Motor Behavior in Down Syndrome (1999)
• Unix systems programming and large site administration for the IUCS Computer Systems Group (1986-1997)
• Web development as webmaster for the IU Computer Science Department (1993-1997)
  • Personnel Directory
• CSCI A348, development and instruction of an advanced Web course (1996)
• IUeval, an online evaluation, survey and testing system (1994-1995)
• the picons project, providing faces for the net (1991-)
• the Internet Oracle, wired omniscience (1989-)
• the ABAT project, biomechanics at the Barcelona `92 Olympics (1992)
• vshnu, an enhanced vsh-like visual shell supplement (1983-)

Some fun stuff of mine

• the Band-Aid Applet, a rather silly use of technology [Java]
• the Cafe Wall, an optical illusion [background image]
• the Picons Card Game, great fun with lots of variety and customizability [JavaScript]
• Random Word Haiku, sublime or profane?--you decide, or just exercise your vocabulary
• Schoolhouse Rock Sound Clips, nostalgia and a useful applet (ClipControl) [Java or .au]