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Bill Catambay, president

President

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and owner of ExcaliburWorld Software, is director and producer of the game project Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge

Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge

Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge is a computer game involving the Sword of Power, Excalibur, the wizard Merlin, the sorceress Morgana, and the United Earth Federation . This is an expansion story based upon the legend of Arthur and Excalibur. The story takes places across three time periods...

. He is also the president

President

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and editor-in-chief of the national Apple User Group The Macintosh Guild, and editor-in-chief of Pascal Central.

Biography

Bill Catambay was born on August 1, 1962, in Mountain View, California

Mountain View, California

-Downtown:Mountain View has a pedestrian-friendly downtown centered on Castro Street. The downtown area consists of the seven blocks of Castro Street from the Downtown Mountain View Station transit center in the north to the intersection with El Camino Real in the south...

. He attended Oak Grove

Oak Grove High School (San Jose, California)

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High School in San Jose

San Jose, California

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, CA, and attended the University of Santa Clara where he graduated with honors with a degree in Computer Science

Computer science

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.

Bill's first job was at a convalescence

Convalescence

Convalescence is the gradual recovery and of health and strength after illness. It refers to the later stage of an infectious disease or illness when the patient recovers and returns to normal, but may continue to be a source of infection even if feeling better...

hospital (or CCF

CCF

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) in San Jose, CA, working a maintenance job at the age of 15 years. While going to high school, Bill worked part-time at Jack-in-the-Box

Jack-in-the-Box

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, and when he began college, he worked part-time at Lockheed

Lockheed Corporation

The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995.-Origins:...

. After graduation, Bill entered the graduate engineer program at Lockheed

Lockheed Corporation

The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995.-Origins:...

, and eventually ended up working for the Trident missile

Trident missile

The Trident missile is a submarine-launched ballistic missile equipped with multiple independently-targetable reentry vehicles . The Fleet Ballistic Missile is armed with nuclear warheads and is launched from nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines . Trident missiles are carried by fourteen...

program as a lead programmer supporting the manufacturing shops. Having worked at Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington Metropolitan Area....

since 1982, Catambay writes and supports computer programs that support FBM

Trident missile

Manufacturing Shops in Sunnyvale

Sunnyvale, California

Sunnyvale is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley located in the San Francisco Bay Area...

, CA, and in Kings Bay

Kings Bay, Georgia

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, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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. He also developed a web-based attendance recording and overtime

Overtime

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management system that supports several Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin

facilities across the United States

United States

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Outside of work, Catambay's positions include Macintosh advocate, Pascal advocate, game designer, software reviewer, editor-in-chief, and video editor. At home, he strictly uses Macintosh

Macintosh

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for all his personal works, including the development of Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge

Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge

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Catambay founded ExcaliburWorld Software in 1994. He started Pascal Central in 1996, and started the Macintosh Guild in 1997, both of which he continues to support today.

Currently, Catambay lives in Santa Clara

Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions, Mission Santa Clara de Asís, and was named after the mission. The Mission and Mission Gardens are located on the...

, CA, with his wife Yanying and two sons, Peter and Michael.