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Staff

Entertainment
Brian Gill - Darkamus
Nathan Nelson - ForrestGump
 
Helpdesk
Dillard Raymer - Pantera
Rebecca Raymer - Beckah
Trevor Garner - L4NC3R
 
Member At Large
Frank Nelson - Francopoli
Jason Riley - IronWolf
John Miller - §hadow
Larry Burke - Anla-shok
Networking
Eric Raque - Mac / MacLeod
Jay Eckert - Sargonas
John-Michael Bassett - Zeke / Ezekiel / Mutt
Paul Frederick - Outrayjus
Steven Tardy - FooDog
Travis Hauser - nForcer / Enforcer
 
Organizer
Dawn Schwartz - BBabe
Troy Schwartz - Burden
 
Power
George Conover - InfinityPlus
Greg Goodman - lordviper
Tom Roy - Tommykillall
 
Tournament
John Reeder - Zero
Mathis Sneed - JurassicFido
 
Entertainment
Brian Gill - Darkamus
Dark fell in love with video games with pong and it grew out of control from there. He has owned all the consoles from past to present but crossed over in the pc world during the beginning of the Quake series. He found a home in the series but withdrew from it do to the epic letdown of Q4, where he now has a home in The wolrd of Warcraft. Darkamus is very strange and dark person but he still manages to keep the party rocking. He is a person of many hobbies which include of course, video games, martial arts, tech gadgets, home audio /video and a sponsored paintballer. His first LAN was LAN-o trauma where the love grew for LAN gaming. He has managed and helped manage other Lans in the past before he came aboard the Lanwar staff. In his free time he attends other area LAN parties, runs the projector at Lanwar/MML events. He is a happily married man with the most beautiful child a father could have, where he now has taken time off work to be a stay at home dad.
Nathan Nelson - ForrestGump
Nathan, also known as ForrestGump to the gaming community, actively started playing computer games when his friends convinced him to play Quake II: Weapons Factory with them online. Once while playing on a random server, someone on his team said “Run Forrest, Run!” in chat after he stole the enemy flag. After that, the name stuck.

He has been attending LAN parties since March of 1999 and has been to every Lanwar/MML since his first, Lanwar 18.  In his free time he attends other area LAN parties, runs the projector at Lanwar/MML events and has recently been re-addicted to World of Warcraft.

ForrestGump currently has an Associates of Applied Business from the University of Cincinnati and currently works as a network administrator for ST Media Group in Cincinnati, Ohio.
 
Helpdesk
Dillard Raymer - Pantera
 
Rebecca Raymer - Beckah
 
Trevor Garner - L4NC3R

 
Member At Large
Frank Nelson - Francopoli
Frank ‘Francopoli’ Nelson has been a gamer ever since he got an Intelevision for Christmas, long, long ago. A stint with a Vic20 and another with a Comodore 64 and he never looked back. When he moved to Louisville from California, one of the first things he did was to go to this “Lanwar” thing (Lanwar17 to be precise). He was put on staff just in time for MML2, and has been loving it ever since. Currently employed as part of the IT staff for a medical practice, he is always on the hunt for Virii and Spyware. Francopoli is the guy at the event with the best job on staff: he gets to give stuff away!
Jason Riley - IronWolf

Staffer since LW 7.

John Miller - §hadow

Shadow, 23 years of age, has been attending LANWar since LW8 and has been staff since LW11. Considered an all-purpose staffer he goes and does whatever is needed. He can be most often seen standing near the hall doors or the tournament areas lending a hand. He does a little of everything.

Shadow has been an avid gamer since the days of Apple IIe games such as Joust and Dig Dug. He prefers first person shooters and real time strategy, but has been known to play the occasional driving/flying sim. He's also been involved in the operations of multiple companies and lanparties, including ShelbyLAN and KnightLAN. Don't ask for Shadow's given name, he won't tell you.

Larry Burke - Anla-shok

Ok, first thing first.  Anla-shok is the Minbari name for the Rangers in the greatest TV Series of all time, Babylon 5.

Larry is another old school gamer that got started with the IntelliVision.  Larry first started Lan gaming with friends at work, and first attended LanWar at 3 or 4 (don't remember exactly which).  Larry has only missed a couple since then due to being out of town for work or because of the birth of one of his 2 kids.  Larry has been helping set up at LanWar for a long time.  Helping out wherever needed, but usually helping Zeke set up the network.

Larry currently spends most of his time playing WoW, but will play just about any game.  His favorite FPS is Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.  Let's hear it for FREE games.

Larry has worked as a computer programmer for a major package transportation company in Louisville for over 14 years.
 
Networking
Eric Raque - Mac / MacLeod

Eric Raque (pronounced "rocky") has been messing with computers since he was breaking & toying with his dad's trs-80 and various and sundry apple computers thereafter. He currently is working as a consultant doing network engineering for a large KY automotive manufacturer. In the past, he's worked in both server and network administration for many large Louisville area corporations such as The KY Lottery, Caritas Health Care & Bank of Louisville. Eric, or "Mac" as he's more commonly referred to in the LanWar community and abroad, has fixed everything from workstation pc's, switches, routers to your monster HP clusters.

Eric got involved with LanWar around LW2 when he and a friend started attending as gamers. He was invited to join staff after he offered his help and expertise somewhere around LW4...but it's been so long ago, I'm sure he's killed those brain cells off already. Bottom line, if you need help, he's always more than willing to lend a helping hand wherever he is needed.
Jay Eckert - Sargonas
Sargs real name is Jay, althought 99.9% of the people call him Sarg, even outside of lanwar. He's 27, and a long time gamer and hard core geek, and local native here in Louisville. In the past he has been in management for Gamestop/Software ETC and EB, as well as an IT admin and system developer for a company in chicago called Kastle Systems. Also formerly tech support for both Asus Technology, and Express Technologies (now host.com) the home of Louisvillemojo.com. Currently he is the Operations Manger for the Atlanta division of EA. Needless to say, his geek factor runs high and has found his calling with Lanwar. Attending since number 10, and staff since 13, he's seen and done just about everything on staff, happiest breaking the network and running the IRC systems.
John-Michael Bassett - Zeke / Ezekiel / Mutt

Zeke is an old school IT professional. His roots in coding date back to BASIC on a TRS-80 model 1 (complete with the tape drive). His college background was for programming; he's written code professionally across many languages and platforms from COBOL to C++, from PCs to minicomputers. Eventually, his interest and career turned to networking and systems administration, and eventually he joined a consulting practice in Northern California. His technical experience ranges from managing small office LANs to architecting switched networks for some of the largest community colleges in California. He is currently employed designing security for Windows based systems at a major corporation in Louisville.

Zeke has been involved in internet gaming since 1991, when he was introduced to MUDding. He was immediately hooked, and still enjoys mudding to this day. He also enjoys first person shooters, playing Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and ET: Quake Wars. He is the currently the head coder and part of the admin team for a small but successful mud, as well as the coder behind the Quakewars "BBAMod", for the ET & QW clan Buffalo Bad Ass. He's easy to spot -- just look for the engineer bouncing grenade rifle around corners.  Zeke joined the LanWar staff for MML2, in 2003.

Paul Frederick - Outrayjus

Paul Frederick has been in the LAN party scene since early 1999, and on the internet gaming scene since 1996. In the past, Paul has helped host many lan parties both for himself, and his old High school Computer Club. He is an avid fan of console systems, and dance simulations games (Such as DDR). His Favorite games aside from console games are Quake III, UT2004, Serious Sam, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Paul's one big love is helping run and administrate LAN parties. Paul says "Having input in such a large system (run by such an elite few), is spectacular fun!".  In his free time (which school makes him sparse of), he enjoys conversing, playing simulation games, working on networks (for fun!), playing cards, and making obscure electronic devices.

Paul currently attends University Of Louisville, Speed School of Engineering. He is currently in the Masters of Electrical and Computer Engineering program, with hopes to one day work for a major chip manufacturer or electronics company. He was also is the President of the UofL Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.  Paul is employed as a Systems & Network Engineer for a Louisville City Government organization.

Steven Tardy - FooDog

FooDog has been a "computer geek" since before most even heard of the abacus. With his formal training from Mississippi State University in the mid- to late-90's, FooDog officially learned the way the world of computers works. From installing, managing, breaking, fixing, and generally pushing the limits of what computers, servers, linux, and networks are capable of, he amassed a practical knowledge that turned him into a very powerful craftsman in the art of computers.

Working as a technician for over six years, his knowledge and experience have led him through all facets of computer use and misuse, from white-hat to black-hat, Foo has seen it all (and fixed most of it). One of the most modest, self-less, and down-to-earth people, FooDog is always on the lookout for ways to make what he encounters better, never cooler or flashier, just fundamentally better, for the good of all.

As a founding member of the Raging Platypi, Foo could always be found repairing vehicles in Battlefield 1942 or laying mines in front of passing tanks in Battlefield 2, making sure his teammates were in better position to continue the battle. As a member of the Lanwar staff, Foo has lent his quiet contribution to the cause. His efforts, as always, are an attempt to make the events better as a whole, for the good of all who partake.

Travis Hauser - nForcer / Enforcer

Enforcer hails from St Louis, Missouri where he works full-time as a Major Sales Rep for Costco Wholesale. 

Enforcer is a self-taught PC specialist with skills ranging from building, consulting, repairing and troubleshooting personal computers and servers.  He received no 'formal' training til late in college but by that time he was already certified by CompTIA as a PC Repair Specialist.  While in college Enforcer enrolled in the Cisco Network Academy and shifted focus from computer support to network infrastructure.  Since graduating, Enforcer continued to self-teach himself Cisco networks and is currently working on CCNA, and CCSP certifications.

 

Enforcer's roots into LANparties started back in 2000 when he learned about a group called LANWAR.  That same year he attended his first major LAN, an event by which all others would be compared to...MillionManLan!

 

Since attending the (then) 5-DAY long MML event, he has attended as many LW events as his lifestyle would allow.  Being from St. Louis, this did not allow him to attend every event but those he could attend he made a point to be noticed.  Enforcer could always be counted on to be there from early setup till the last person left on the final day.  Due in no small part to this dedication, at MML7 he was asked to join the LANWAR staff – a position he humbly accepted.

 

Enforcer can usually be found shadowing fellow network specialists Zeke and FooDog making sure the network is solid and gamers are having fun.  If there’s a problem with the network or a fellow gamer’s server takes a dive, Enforcer could be found nearby with screwdriver and flash drive in hand ready to lend his talents.

 
Organizer
Dawn Schwartz - BBabe

Bbabe's main responsibility is keep Burden in line.  After that, she spends most of her day responding to gamer emails, sponsor emails, booking halls, reserving power distribution equipement etc.  In her spare time, she manages the Schwartz household and its three kids ;)

Troy Schwartz - Burden
Been invovled in gaming for 10 years and still can't beat anybody at anything.  Burden relies on the staff and BBabe to do all the hard work so he can focus on taking the glory.
 
Power
George Conover - InfinityPlus

Infinityplus is an old time gamer...he actually played Pong when it was new...and that means he has been gaming for over 35 years!  Fin (as he is more commonly known) has been attending Lanwar since LW11 and been on the volunteer staff since Lanwar 16. He is the staff member responsible for the overall success of the hall power at each event.

Fin is a Kentucky transplant. He lived most of his life in North New Jersey before moving to Louisville in 1997. Prior to moving to Kentucky, Fin was a Vice President for First Union bank NJ. Today, Fin is employed at Kentucky Farm Bureau where he works as a programmer/analyst in the application support department.  In addition to his Lanwar responsibilities, Fin belongs to Toastmasters International where he currently holds the position of Division Governor.

Greg Goodman - lordviper
Lordviper started with MML 5 and has been to every event after. He found a place helping Fin setup power. He enjoys helping at the events and meeting new people.  
 

Lordviper started gaming on a Atari 2600 a very long time ago. He got his first PC for Christmas when he was 10. It was a 386 DX 40 with 64k of ram and an 80 meg MFM hard drive.

 

Lordviper currently lives in Jeffersonville, IN but grew up in a little town in KY called Howevally.  

Tom Roy - Tommykillall
Tommykillall started gaming on the Atari 2600, 25 years later and he still hasn't broke his addiction.  When he was younger he lived in Australia for 2 years and became a Peace Corps Volunteer in 2005 living in the bushes of Kenya, Africa.  Managed to survive the lack electricity using nothing more than a headlamp and a GameBoy Color.  His appreciation for good coffee borderlines obsession/addiction.  He has been attending since Lanwar 17 and only missed a few because of his Peace Corps experience. 
 
Tournament
John Reeder - Zero

Zero's been around since April 24th, 1998...LanWar's first event. He and 89 other attendees filed into the University of Louisville's Student Activity Center, and he's been at almost every LanWar event since. Joining the LanWar staff with Kazmont sometime around LW 8 or 9, Zero runs the DeathMatch tournaments at LanWar along with Kazmont. Starting with Unreal Tournament, then moving on to Unreal Tournament 2003 and Unreal Tournament 2004, Zero and Kazmont have worked together to make LanWar's DeathMatch tournaments some of the smoothest-running and most popular tournaments in the event's history. (Big thanks to Smooth, Jacanuck, Dawgpound, Ra, and Toque for keeping our rules in-line with what's going on in the UT community. Our tournies would suck without your help! - Z)

Zero lives just north of Cincinnati, Ohio, right next to Kings Island Amusement Park. He's 27 years old, and has been in the technology field for 12 years. He currently works at a public school district as a Computer Technician, where he's responsible for the upkeep of over 1700 computers across the district.

Zero mostly plays Unreal Tournament 2004, TrackMania: Nations, and World of Warcraft these days, but has been console gaming since the Atari 2600 days, and has been gaming on the PC since King's Quest, Test Drive, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on one of his first computers, a IBM-Compatible 286.  Zero got into multiplayer gaming with Quake 1, and his first LAN event (outside of a buddy's house) was at RipFest in Florence, KY in 1998.

Mathis Sneed - JurassicFido