About Daniel Watrous

I was born and raised in Salt Lake City, and now live in Boise ID. My fingers always yearned for a keyboard and I did my best to take part in the rise of home personal computing. Early on I realized that technology would change the landscape of business and especially marketing, so that became my focus.

As the years passed, I grew more and more interested in the highly technical projects which allowed for much more personal and dynamic software. By personal and dynamic I mean the rise of software and websites that can be customized for each person that use them.

In early 2000 I began focusing my efforts on the internet and spent a few years building cutting edge technology for advertising agencies. The first website that I worked on was www.intel.com, which I eventually took over as lead developer. I’ve built websites for companies in health care, technology, banking and a whole bunch in between.

In 2002 I turned my focus deeper and began to study electrical engineering at the University of Utah. While at the university I specialized in semiconductor device physics (what happens at the atomic level of every computer) with an emphasis in optoelectronics (how semiconductors absorb and emit light).

During college I had a software company with one or two employees. We primarily built software for a select list of clients local to Salt Lake City. I closed my business to do research during my last year at the university building SpinFET devices in a clean room environment.

After college I went to work for as an electrical/software engineer with Aptina Imaging LLC, one of the world leading companies in the world for digital imagers (a near perfect marriage between the semiconductor device physics and optoelectronics I studied in college).

I’m now working from home again and focuses on the marriage of technology and marketing in novel and useful ways. Have a look at some of what I write about on my blog to learn more about me. Drop me a line if you have questions or projects that you think my interest me.