Josh Stroschein received his B.S. from The University of South Dakota in May of 2005 and went to work for Omnitech, Inc., a small software development company located in Sioux Falls, SD. There his work primarily focused on developing web-applications with .NET and other open source languages. His most recent project involved assisting in the development of a web-based application to manage a network of media servers.

While in college, Josh helped the Computer Science department develop its first Cluster, which provides high-performance DNA sequence alignment searches with low-end performing computers through the use of parallel computing. Josh is also a member of the Air National Guard and is currently on active duty in Texas for pilot training.