ara pehlivanian

A brief history

The first computer I ever touched was an Apple ][ in a 1989 high school typing class. The following year I learned how to program in LOGO on the very same machines. Then it was on to the Comterms (what you could call a PC) and GWBASIC. Somewhere in the blur of my early high school years, I got my first computer, an XT clone with 768kB of RAM and a 10MB SCSI hard drive to which I added the AdLib Music Synthesizer card.

In 1993 I discovered the demoscene when I saw Future Crew's Unreal. I was in awe and dove right in, joining the local demoscene BBS of the day, the Spasm-0-Tron. Not long after that, I started my own, TimeRift. I also co-founded a demo group called Night Vision, later to become SATiRe, as well as joining KFMF for a while. Throughout my involvement I went by the alias Epeius until the latter years when I switched over simply to Ara.

Through contacts in the scene I landed my first computer related job at a wholesaler. Rebuilding their website in 1997 was the first real site I ever built (apart from a personal one I had at the time). That lead to a small intranet job for Nortel, and a few contracts and jobs later I ended up webmaster at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival for four years. I now work for Nurun* as a Front-end Architect working on projects for highly visible clients.

*I do not speak for nor represent Nurun in any way shape or form. The content published on this site is entirely me.

Elsewhere on the web

• Twitter: http://twitter.com/ara_p/
• Pownce: http://pownce.com/arapehl/
• iLike: http://www.ilike.com/user/arapehl
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arapehl
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=704015025
• Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arapehl/

Faith

The Nicene Creed pretty much sums up what I believe

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty
Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible:

And in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds;
God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God;
begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father,
by Whom all things were made:
Who for us men and for our salvation came down from Heaven,
and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man:
And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried:
And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures:
And ascended into Heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father:
And he shall come again, with glory, to judge both the quick and the dead:
Whose Kingdom will have no end:

And I believe in the Holy Ghost the Lord, and Giver of Life,
Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son
Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified,
Who spake by the Prophets.
And I believe in One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church,
I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins.
And I look for the Resurrection of the Dead:
And the Life of the world to come. Amen.

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