About Me

This is me in a brief paragraph: Help, I’m in a brief paragraph! How did I become trapped in this brief paragraph? What an interesting brief paragraph this is! Now let’s be serious:

I was born sometime in 1979, have lived for a bit, and here I am today.

I graduated from UCLA in 2002 with a B.S. in Computer Science.

I am currently employed as a Software Engineer at Google.

“I used to have many stuffed animals when I was little, including a cool teddy bear with swivel-able arms and legs. Anyway, what happened was that one day I was playing with my bear, pretending to cook him in the oven. (Don’t ask.) I forgot him in there, my mother started cooking dinner, and a horrible smell soon permeated the house. Needless to say, she had really cooked my bear! The food was ruined, and of course so was the bear. I cried and cried… But I look back now and laugh at the whole thing. She cooked my bear! He didn’t have a name, but I declare, Bearnard would have been appropriate. And after his incident, he would forever be known, in teddy bear heaven, as Burnard.”

If you’d like to email me, I can be reached at mjhecht@gmail.com.

That’s my real address; I have faith in GMail’s Spam Filtering capability.