Hello and welcome to my web page. Thanks for taking a look. If you have come to this web page by Googling or searching for "Tom McHale" then there may be some mystery as to what particular Tom McHale I am. The last time looked there were 30+ persons with the name of Tom McHale in California alone, where I live. McHale is a somewhat common last name for a person of Irish origins and there are 44 million plus of those in the US alone. So no surprise there are more than a few of us. In fact, I met two other Tom McHales in one magical night in 1978 in DeKalb, Illinois.
Enough about that. If you are looking for a particular Tom McHale then here is my basic info. I was born in Eustis, Florida in 1957 and moved to Chicago, IL in 1966, where I stayed until 1975. I attended Cornell College from 1975-1979 (undergrad) and the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago from 1983-1987 (grad school). Since 1987 I have been a professional software developer working for a variety of enterprises - SYSTAT, Inc., RoboDoc, and since 1998 at Apple Computer in the QuickTime group. If any of this sounds familiar then you have found the right Tom McHale.
The basic gestalt of this home page is to provide links to my areas of interest. Here is a list of sub pages and links that I think important: