My name is Thomas V. Zapor, but you can call me TVZ. I am now located in Orlando, FL, where I have lived since attending the University of Central Florida in the mid 1990s.

I was born and grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. In 1983 my parents got tired of shoveling snow and moved to Florida. From the age of 11 until I started college I lived in Port Orange, FL, just a few miles from the self-proclaimed “World’s Most Famous Beach“, Daytona Beach.

Dayona Beach, “world’s most famous” or not, is still one of my favorite places in Florida. One of may latest hobbies has capturing the under-rated beauty of Daytona in dozens — if not hundreds — digital pictures that will soon finm their way into this web site. To me there is nothing in the world more beautiful than the view from one high-rise bridges of the beachsde skyline with the Atlantic Ocean in the background.

I think my career would be best described as a creative technology jack of all trades. Ihave been doing HTML-based web design in one way or another since short after I graduated from the University of Central Florida in 1996. Since then I have done everything from technical writing, to graphic design, to Flash animation, desktop publishing, dabbling in programming in a variety of languages, taming an unruly proprietary CMS, and now I’m finally diving into WordPress.