Describing myself has to be the single most difficult thing I do in life. Its fairly easy to compress my professional self into a nice little sound bite for conferences, for example:

Phillip Moore recently left Morgan Stanley, where he was Executive Director of UNIX Engineering. There Phil was a senior architect, responsible for the evolution of the Firm's UNIX/Linux infrastructure. His past accomplishments include the deployment of Morgan Stanley's perl development environment, global filesystem (AFS), and transactional messaging infrastructure (MQSeries), with over 15 years experience deploying solutions to problems of extreme scalability. He is the original author of the MQSeries suite of perl modules, and a emeritus member of the OpenAFS Advisory Council. He is currently employed at Merrill Lynch.

That's the official, corporate "me". Oh, you will often see me listed as "W. Phillip Moore" in older publications, but I'm dropping the W entirely, as that letter has come to be associated with something I consider dark and evil.

But there's a lot more to me than "work", and its the things I call "life".

I'm a recently separated, soon to be divorced father of two teenagers, both in High School. My daughter attends LaGuardia HS, studying art, and my son attends Frank Sinatra HS, studying music, specifically percussion. Both schools are here in New York City.