Marvin Waschke

Marvin Waschke is a lifelong fourth generation native of Whatcom County in the northwest corner of Washington State. He has recently published a collection of essays on growing up and living on the acreage he calls Vine Maple Farm. The essays explore how life has changed in the last six decades, and not always for the better.

He is also a retired enterprise software architect who has designed, developed, and maintained complex computer systems that manage IT for large, computation intensive organizations like banks and government agencies. His book "Cloud Standards" is for professionals who want to understand the construction, strengths, and weaknesses of large cloud systems. His second book, "How Clouds Hold IT Together" is about the role of cloud in enterprise computing, not only as a cost efficient way of tapping into computing power, but also as a resource for enterprise IT integration that makes enterprise computing more effective and efficient. His most recent book, "Personal Cybersecurity," addresses the problems faced by individuals in a computing realm that is becoming increasing hostile to users. His aim is to explain what makes computing insecure today, what government and industry has done (and not done) to protect users, and what individual can do to protect themselves.

Waschke has an alternate identity, who dodged out of mathematics into classical Chinese literature and history, collected a library of books by writers like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Rex Stout, and is partial to James Thurber, P.G. Wodehouse, and S.J. Perelman. He is also a Victorian literature buff with a special taste for Anthony Trollope and an avid public library advocate and former library trustee.