IMPORTANT: Lilly Tao's web site has moved to a NEW HOME.
I'm leaving the old content here for posterity...

Right now, I reside in Sunnyvale, California, work in San Mateo, and "play" pretty much all over the San Francisco Bay Area.

I attended Wellesley College where I double-majored in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, and divided my time equally between the science center and the music building (I play the violin), when I wasn't out raising havoc at MIT or perusing the wonders of Harvard Square.

I grew up in Wilton, Connecticut, a beautiful New England suburb where the leaves turn astounding colors in autumn, and I went to Wilton High School. For fun we used to drive by Dave Letterman's house in the middle of the night (well, it was a dry (no alcohol sold) town...we had to get our kicks somehow).

I'm currently a software engineer at Austin-Hayne Corporation. We develop human resources software such as performance appraisal tools. Before taking this job I took a couple months off to recuperate from a bad case of "startup burnout". During that time, I produced a road rally with my friend, Ken. It was a smashing success and everyone had tons of fun, including me and Ken! My other recent activities include helping with the construction of a big sand castle, and dressing up as Velcro(TM) for Halloween.

Companies I have enriched with my software development skills:

• Purple Moon a producer of software games and a web site for girls aged 8-12.
• Web Tools Group, Traveling Software, aka Milktruck, LLC, which I joined when it was a garage (errr, second bedroom) startup.
• Brio Technology, Inc ..they finally IPO'd (yippee!!) and I check their stock price way too often.
• PenRight, when it was part of the now defunct GRiD.
• Lotus at the tail end of their glory days.

Links that reflect some of my current avocations (always subject to change!):

• Roller Hockey (I'm not very good).
• Human-Computer Interaction
• A Cappella Singing
• A searchable repository of guitar tabs.
• Playing violin with the Saratoga Symphony and Lyric Theatre
• Attending WebGrrls meetings.

Pages of my own devising:

• My Writing Page
• Things Every Woman (and men too!) Should Read
• Things That Make Me Laugh
• Pictures of Me
• My Photo Album (hosted on another site)
• About my Subaru wagon

A miscellaneous list which probably should be titled "What I did in the 80's":

• Listened to lots of Bowie
• Waited eagerly for new episodes of Moonlighting
• Rooted for The New York Mets (well they did win the '86 world series after all).
• Thought about moving to Bloom County
• Took all those (*%^&$ standardized tests.
• Used DOS.
• Played violin in the Norwalk Youth Symphony.
• Spent some fun summers at New England Music Camp.

Random people I know who have web pages (OK, so they're not really random, but they do have web pages):

• Matthew Bayly (aka jovia.com)
• Michael Ernst
• Kurt Ohlfs' Adventures
• Seth Golub who lives at "The House".
• My brother's pages, with mostly Xena stuff right now.
• Ken (thanks to Ian) has a bunch of pictures of his trip around the world, including an incriminating (posed!) one of me during the weekend we spent packing up his Lake Tahoe condo.
• Toni Beth Reiss
• Lisa Eckstein

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