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About Jay Valatka.
Joseph "Jay" Valatka is a PC technician and web developer who continues to work with many individuals and organizations to help them gain a direct presence on the web and/or get better results with their computers and networks.
Jay refers to himself as a "tenacious problem solver." For every problem carefully defined after initial visits with a client, he seeks and selects the proper tools and knowledge that will provide the best all-around solution. The solution could be a small network, new PC hardware, or software applications. Jay also has decades of experience helping others become more knowledgeable about their PCs and how to more effectively use them.
Although Jay has grown up with Microsoft and continues to use Windows out of necessity, he has became a proponent of open-source solutions, such as OpenOffice.org and Linux. He says, "The fact that volunteering developers worldwide could devise a work-alike alternative to a popular software tool like an office suite and continue to improve upon it to benefit the rest of the world is exciting, because it allows more people to become much more aware about how these tools are built and they no longer need to expend a great deal of money on proprietary solutions. The key phrase is decentralized development. I like decentralization a lot!"
Jay also loves exploring all kinds of music and is excited that the current social networking boom, particularly sites such as MySpace, finetune, and imeem, includes music from around the world for everyone to hear.
Jay graduated from Daniel Webster College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. Jay, his wife Jacquie, and their two children currently reside in Salem, Massachusetts.