My name is Phil Burns, on the net I go by Phil801 (my area code is 801).
Born in California and raised in Utah, Missouri and Tennessee I went on to live in Hawaii, then joined the Air Force and saw a chunk of the world. I grew up loving and living in the outdoors and I continue that passion today with my family. In my youth I worked on ranches and began breaking horses when I was 14, today I live on a small 2 1/2 acre farm where we have an acre garden and raise about 40 animals including horses, a Llama, sheep, goats, chickens and rabbits. I am the oldest of 7 kids, my Mother comes from a family of 9 kids. I currently have 8 and we’re not declaring ourselves done yet.
When I was young I was heavily exposed to computers and began learning QBasic. By the time I was 12 I was writing my own programs. When I joined the Air Force at 19 I became an Information Specialist and began refining my programming skills. After the military I attended College studying Computer Science and Business. I soon began working as a Business Analyst and Software Engineer. Over the years I became an expert at analyzing a business’ processes and creating solutions for them, then I would write the software to implement that solution. Along the way I started The Gatherers (General Automation Technology, Human Error Removal, E-Commerce Resolutions Specialists) and worked independently as a contractor. This continued for 6 years until Paul Allen offered me a position as the COO for his Internet Incubator, Provo Labs. After Provo Labs was realigned to a holding company, I started my own venture, 42Co.
I am currently the CEO of 42Co where we are building some awesome new blog oriented products called TagJungle, The Daily Spike and BlogMined.
My full background, contact info and resume are available here.
I also keep a blog called Heart Rate Runner that is all about my training to run a marathon
