====== BoonDock ======
Sysop of [[bbs:elgatodefuego|El Gato de Fuego]] BBS, hosted by [[marisag]]

===== Addresses =====
  * ANSI Terminal Services
    * [[telnet://elgato.synchronetbbs.org|Telnet]] [[rlogin://elgato.synchronetbbs.org|RLogin]] [[ssh://elgato.synchronetbbs.org|SSH]]
  * Traditional Internet Services
    * [[http://elgato.synchronetbbs.org/|Web]] [[ftp://elgato.synchronetbbs.org|FTP]] [[gopher://elgato.synchronetbbs.org|Gopher]]  [[irc://elgato.synchronetbbs.org|IRC]] 
  * Modem: None
  * QWK-ID: ELGATO
  * FidoNet: None 

  * WikiPedia Editor as [[wp>user:BoonDock|BoonDock]]
  * [[https://github.com/JohnDovey|GitHub]]
  * [[mailto:dovey.john@gmail.com|Email]]
  * [[https://www.patreon.com/BoonDock|Patreon]]
  * [[https://www.royalroad.com/profile/132145|Royal Road]]
      * [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/40585/mail-order-bride-novel|Mail Order Bride]]
      * [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/28874/gaia-awakening|Gaia: Awakening]]
      * [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/29360/war-brothers-war-world-book-one|War Brothers]] (War World Book One)
  * [[https://www.wattpad.com/user/JohnDovey|WattPad]]
  * [[HTTP://www.facebook.com/John.Dovey|Facebook]]
  * [[https://twitter.com/PJDovey|Twitter]]
  * WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal
  * and various others

===== Bio ===== 
South African, now an expat living in [[wp>Pedasi]], [[wp>Panama]].

35 years of military service in the [[wp>South African Army]] Reserves, 28 of which were infantry and the rest as a Demolitions guy in the Engineers.

Did some years as a [[wp>Private military company|PMC]] in Iraq and a bunch of other [[wp>Bodyguard|PSD]] and misc contracts in Africa and the last two years in Central and South America.

Civilian career was primarily in IT with a focus on Knowledge Management and dabbling in a variety of various distractions such as dLib (Academic publishing on pre-print servers), Virtual Learning Environments (mostly MUDS and MOOS), Large library systems (60000 users and up) and all the complications that went with that.

Along the way, I've been a programmer, Systems Analyst, Business Analyst, Business & IT Troubleshooter. Lectured at the Post-Graduate level, shot competitively (Service and Sport shooting), Land Rover enthusiast, Skydiver, Base Jumper, and Motor-bike rider.
Father of daughters and Political observer. Mostly same-old same-old :-)

I was an enthusiastic BBS operator and user from around 1987, running RyBBS, WildCat and a couple of others. Active participant in Echo boards and FidoNet.