PaulMcLean.US started in 1996. I worked in the Hotel business as a night auditor for a couple hotels on Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Working the night shift has a lot of “down” time.

I began teaching myself how to program and created my first software app in VB4. It was a telephone logging system to help the desk clerks manage and log room phone calls to be tallied up onto the guests daily charges.

The World Wide Web, as it was known, did not have as many .extensions. I thought, "Who would possibly want paulmclean.com? I am Paul McLean." Well someone had it! I googled me to find there were thousands of Paul McLean's in the world.

I noticed .US was one suggested. I thought, hmmm that's me, I am the Paul McLean that lives in the US.

From that moment I became more than just Paul McLean. I was now also PaulMcLean.US.

In 1993 a friend taught me how to take a computer apart and replace one of the cards. Being a motor head, I thought, “That was easy.” I discovered the World Wide Web was filled with information that could teach me more. I would spend hours on end reading all I could find. I fell into the rabbit hole and I am not coming out!
Began my side job fixing computers. Mostly for friends and relatives. I would replace cards, debug any hard drive failures, and remove all sorts of viruses. I was a learning/fixing machine. It did not take long for me to migrate from fixing computers to learning how to program them.
In 1996 I moved down to Wilmington, NC. There I began to teach myself how to program software. I created my first commercial software application that took 20 floppy disks to load.
In 2000 The new millennium begins! I joined KnolwedgeXtensions in Delmar, NY and my world exploded into software development.
In 2007 I teamed up with a British company and traveled to the UK for 2 weeks of onboarding. That was cool!
In 2010 I ventured into the financial and insurance markets as an IT Principal.
In 2015 I officially took on a role as Devops Engineer.
In 2019 The world grinded to a halt!

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Taken March 20th, 2019 at 7:31 pm