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About — Ralph Hightower

About — Ralph Hightower

I am a retired software engineer with 50++1 years of experience in application design and development. I graduated from USC, home of the Fighting Gamecocks2, with a B.S. in Computer Science.

Besides software development, my interests include photography, water-skiing, and space exploration, crewed and non-crewed, such as the Voyagers and Mars rovers.

I have water-skied on three South Carolina lakes, and two Midwestern rivers.

  • South Carolina Lakes
    1. Clark Hill Lake3
    2. Lake Greenwood
    3. Lake Murray
  • Midwestern Rivers
    1. Cedar River, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    2. Mississippi River, between the Quad Cities of Bettendorf and Davenport, Iowa, and Moline and Rock Island, Illinois

That's just a very brief introduction. More details and other things that I'm interested in and/or enjoy are here.

Test/Website Result
Top Gun Call Sign Lt. Ralph 'Tahoe' Hightower1
Myers-Briggs Personality Test® INTP2
CliftonStrength 34™ Ideation | Deliberative | Learner | Input | Strategic
Leaders with great Strategic Thinking strengths are the ones who keep us all focused on what could be. They are constantly absorbing and analyzing information and helping the team make better decisions. People with strength in this domain continually stretch our thinking for the future.
Game of Thrones Personality Test3 Primary Character: Mance Rayder4
Secondary Character: Ser Jaime Lannister5
Tertiary Character: Ygritte6

Footnotes

  1. A little computer humor. In the C, C++, and C# languages, '++' is used to increment a number. ↩ ↩2

  2. National Championshis:
    Men's Baseball: 201, 2011
    Women's Basketball: 20177, 2022, 2024
    Women's Track and Field: 20002 ↩ ↩2

  3. Clark Hill Lake has been renamed Lake Thurmond, but I'll continue with the original name. ↩ ↩2

  4. Primary Character: Mance Rayder
    Nickname: King Beyond the Wall
    Traits: Inspiring, Formidable, Pioneer
    Your primary character is Mance Rayder. You are a charismatic, calm, and determined man with strong leadership qualities. You tend to rise quickly through the ranks of any organization you enter. You have good social and diplomatic skills, allowing you to collaborate with many different types of people. You have an honest yet stern persona which earns you respect and admiration of those around you. You are very trusting which can be your greatest weakness. You value freedom above all else. ↩

  5. Secondary Character: Ser Jaime Lannister
    Nickname: The Kingslayer
    Traits: Arrogant, Sarcastic, Apathetic
    Your secondary character is Ser Jaime Lannister. You are charming and capable of impeccable politeness in the right circumstances. In the wrong circumstances, others perceive you to be disdainful, sarcastic and arrogant. However your arrogance may just be confidence, as you excel in a number of areas, including intelligence. You don't mock others over minor failings but you are usually very blunt. You typically just say what you are thinking without regard to the feelings of those that you perceive as incompetent. You regard ruthlessness as a virtue and behave in an unapologetically amoral way. You're not politically ambitious and sly maneuvering is not your way. ↩

  6. Tertiary Character: Ygritte
    Nickname: Ygritte
    Traits: Wild, Uncoventional, Determined
    Your tertiary character is Ygritte. You are brave and unconventional. You have a mind of your own and prefer not to conform with the demands of societu're cunning and value freedom above all else. You're loyal, but also very passionate and you follow to your heart much more than your head. You live a very fulfilled life, chasing your dreams but this sometimes causes others to mistrust you although you have little enmity in your heart. ↩