Rudy Ramsey Personal Information

	Rudy Ramsey Rudy is the president of Rams' Island Software (RIS), a company he formed in 1989. RIS is a small software-development and consulting firm located in Parker, Colorado. The company name has a genealogical origin. In medieval Scotland, as people were beginning to make use of family names, the inhabitants of a place called "Rams' Island" came to be known as "Ramsay".
	With a Ph.D. in experimental psychology and a 30-year background in software development, Rudy spends part of his time designing and implementing his own software products, and part of his time providing ergonomic and software-design consulting for others. If this seems like a strange combination to you, you can check out his consulting brochure, and maybe his resume. Ah, the wonders of the Web!
	These days, RIS's main product line is the VENDINFO Product Information System. VENDINFO is a system for conveying software product information and distribution permissions from the author to distributors and users. It's well on its way to revolutionizing the shareware industry, and has implications for the "retail" software industry, as well. If you're a shareware author, sysop, disk vendor, CD-ROM publisher, or even an end-user of shareware products, you need to know about VENDINFO.
	At age 53, Rudy is an active (second-degree black belt) student of Taekwon Do. He sings traditional Scottish music, reads mysteries avidly, and occasionally races a Hobie 16 catamaran. Past activities include cornet, jazz piano, classical guitar, and choral singing; five years of judo; several years of tournament chess; five years of racing an SCCA Formula Vee (won the Midwest United States Autocross Championship twice); many years of long-distance running (ran the Boston Marathon in 2:58); ten years as a volunteer ambulance corpsman; seven years as a Scoutmaster or Assistant Scoutmaster; and seven years as a soccer referee. Obviously, Rudy still doesn't know what he wants to do when he grows up.
	Rudy's wife, Alice, works as a pharmaceutical technician. She is very active in community affairs. She's the past president of the League of Women Voters of Douglas County, Colorado, the fastest-growing county in the United States. In our previous town (Newtown, Connecticut), Alice was on the Legislative Council, and was named Outstanding Citizen of the town.
	Alice and Rudy's oldest son, Ian, is 26 and has recently finished his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Colorado. Ian lives in Portland, Oregon, where he's studying furniture design at the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts. Additional interests are fine arts photography, performance art, architecture, and sports. In 1994, he was the third finisher for the CU Triathlon Team, helping them win the National Collegiate Triathlon Team Championship. He's still active in cycling, though he's more interested in mountain-bike racing these days.
	Their second son, Chris, is 24. In 1996, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology (summa cum laude), also at the University of Colorado. He's living in Boston now, working as a fitness trainer while preparing for graduate study in physical therapy. In 1996, he finished 13th at the national collegiate triathlon championships, helping the CU triathlon team win another national championship. At the World Ironman Triathlon Championships in Hawaii, he finished 40th (worldwide) in his age group (12th for the U.S.). Chris is also a gifted musician (cello, guitar, and voice), and plays cello in the Brookline (MA) Symphony Orchestra.
	Alice and Rudy's youngest son, Devin is 11. He's fascinated by robots and space ships, both fictional and real. He's a very skilled Lego builder. He sometimes gets straight-A's, is a gifted young pianist, and studies Taekwon-Do with Dad (he's a high red belt). He has recently started Boy Scouts, so there's some camping in his future.