About Jermismo

Hello. I'm Jeremy.

This is my little home on the internet. For many years I ran a little WordPress blog under this domain name, but eventually I took it down. I just wasn't updating it often enough to justify the yearly hosting fees, and was too busy with my career to carry on with a blog in the traditional sense.

However, I still wanted a place where I could write more medium to long-form content and host it. I looked at sites like Medium and Substack, but to be honest I am nostalgic for the old days of the internet, when articles were just posted up on your own website and anyone could read them for free.

I'm a little sick of platforms, for this simple kind of thing at least. This entire site is just plain HTML and CSS, and maybe JavaScript when needed. No UX framework, no site generator, no hosting platform other than plain Azure Storage and a custom domain name.

What's a Jermismo?

It’s just my name, Jeremy, mashed with NISMO (Nissan's performance department), and just using JISMO was a little, um, funny... It was the early 2000s and I got an invite to join this new mail platform called Gmail. I had an older username I had been using as a teenager, but I decided to come up with something new. It had to be unique enough that as I joined new platforms, I could be reasonably sure no one else was using it. At the time I was driving a 1984 Nissan 300ZX (50th Anniversary Edition), and so there it is.

What do you do for a living?

I'm a software engineer by trade, but also in a senior leadership position. I still write code but I also spend a good amout of time of business strategy.

I started my career in 2004 when I got a student job as a programmer in the Sinclair Community College Chemistry Department in Dayton, OH. I was mostly fixing up old QBASIC and VB6 programs, and writing some new ones in VB.NET 1.1, which had just come out.

In 2005 I dropped out of school and got my first job as a full-time programmer at TQL, a freight logistics company in Cincinnati, OH. I was responsible for maintaining and adding features to some VB6 applications and later started writing some new ones in VB.NET. It doesn’t sound that impressive, but I learned a ton at that job and worked on all sorts of crazy problems.

Then in 2007, I got hired as a Software Development Consultant at 3Sharp in Redmond, WA. I worked on projects for many different companies, doing a little bit of everything, mostly on the Microsoft stack. I moved up to managing the software consulting business in 2013, first as manager, then in 2017 as Director.

Over the years we dropped our software consulting business and I’m now the head of the Regale team, handing strategy, product, engineering, and other duties as we bring our product to market.