Donald Lee was born in the deep south of America but soon experienced life as an expat, first in Mexico City and later in Okinawa and then Seoul, South Korea. He moved back to the States and spent most of his childhood in the southern states of Alabama, North Carolina, and Texas. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Texas A&M with a degree in Genetic Engineering, he took up a summer job as a techno-grunt in Houston where he taught himself programming and database design from the local bookstore while drinking Starbucks coffee.

After a few years of honing his skills he next went to work at the corporate headquarters of Continental Airlines where he had the privilege of traveling to a different country nearly every month for free. Later, the Senior Director of the Advanced Technology Team became vice-president of a dot-com in Silicon Valley and convinced Donald to join him in the dot-com gold rush. On his first day in his new job, the CEO announced that the company just ran out of gas and was shutting it's doors - only 90 minutes into his first day. Fortunately this was the peak of the dot com boom and jobs were plenty. He later went to work for petopia.com (who's business model was to sell 50 lb bags of dog food to single, high income, urban women over 40 - ultimately went bust), Microsoft Consulting Services at one of their highest profile client - the Gap, and Gilead Sciences on the Cheminformatics team where he worked with an incredibly smart team of multi PhD research scientists in drug development against HIV/AIDS.

Donald's interestes include rock climbing, skydiving (skydive with my father, 1270 KB, 65 seconds), camping & hiking, photography, and challenging .NET web projects.

Donald and Audrey have returned from the Middle East and now live in the San Francisco Bay Area.