Lori Fassman - Background Info

I got married on Sunday, May 24, 1998 to David Cohen, originally from Houston, TX. Check out the wedding web site.
I'm originally from Connecticut (born in Stamford, family moved to Westport when I was 2.) I went to Brandeis Univ. for two years, hated it, and transferred to the Univ. of Conn., whence I got my degree in math/actuarial science. I moved to the Boston area in the summer of 1988 because life in Hartford really stank and a friend of mine from Brandeis (Elizabeth Stone) was looking for a roommate in Somerville, Mass.
After college I started out as an actuarial analyst (at the Travelers in Hartford, and then Watson Wyatt Worldwide in Wellesley, MA), and then I moved into programming pension calculation systems at Watson Wyatt. Now I work as a sales engineer at InterSystems, a database company in Cambridge, where I've been employed since April 1997. As an SE, I assist customers and prospective customers by answering their questions, doing demos and presentations, building prototypes of their applications, and so forth.
I've done a lot of volunteer work over the years, much of it for folk music organizations, some of which have their own web pages (see my links page).
I took up quilting a few years ago, and have started filling up the house with little quilted wall hangings. (Haven't yet made a bed-sized quilt.)