David McLure

A liberal arts graduate from the U of Iowa in 1980, where he dabbled in many different majors and served as the staff artist at the Daily Iowan and made a name for himself as one of the more flamboyant Herky Hawk artists, he would eventually settle upon a Communications degree with a Film and Broadcasting emphasis. After graduation, his goal of returning to school under the funding of Army ROTC failed when he was sumarily kicked out of Fort Knox after a brief stay for having allergies, so instead he landed a job as Stand-In on the movie “Take This Job and Shove It”, which was filming in Dubuque Iowa during the summer of 1980. Having met a huge number of film people working on that set, David followed the circus out to Hollywood, where he joined an Acting Studio and eventually landed a part in the movie “Smokie Bites the Dust”, which allowed him to join the Screen Actors Guild - in which he is still a member in good standing to this day. He also worked another bit part on a pilot for a new spin-off of the TV Series “CHiPs”, but fate had other plans, as this was also the year of the first SAG strike and the entire Hollywood scene basically shut down, so David moved back home to Iowa City and after a brief stint living with some good friends in the Chicago area and doing a little modeling, he returned to school to study computer science. Having dabbled in the film industry as both a film animator, newspaper cartoonist, Army reject, Hollywood actor, and Gucci runway model, life just wasn't complete for David until he went back to school at Iowa and caught the software fever writing multiuser computer games. It was hacking in a virtual dungeon as “dav0 the futuristic” (pronounced "Dave - Oh) where he caught wind of an ACM gathering at Iowa City's City Park, where he would proceed to meet his betrothed whom he later chased out east to her new job at the legendary Soul of the New Machine (Data General). Dav0, meanwhile, would land a job at a rival firm (digital equipment corporation - later Compaq - later HP Inc.) writing Interactive Video Information System software (IVIS) on touch screen monitors and the rest of the world is only just now finally catching up to this technology. Find dav0's tech resume on LinkedIn here.