About

I am not left handed.

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About Charlie

I was born a southern peach to the Burger Family while my Dad was posted at Fort Benning, GA with the US Army. As a family, we were transferred to Southwestern Turkey for three years. During this time, I started school–at home. When my Dad retired from the service, and we returned stateside to New York’s Greater Binghamton, where my home education continued until 8th Grade. At that time, I started attending a Christian school in the area. I played soccer and basketball all through high-school, as well as participated in the traveling choir. It was through sports and choir that I met some of my best friends and future wife.

I proceeded to attend college, attaining a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology. While studying in central New York, I developed an interest in web design. After graduating, I landed a job working for an aviation simulation company. Building training devices for militaries all over the world, I developed a love for systems engineering and integration. Eventually, I transitioned to building commercial and military avionics.

From 2005 to 2009, I worked with a church’s progressive high-school youth program (Elevate), where I acted as the A/V and web guru, participated in program planning, and (hopefully) affected the lives of teenagers. In 2010, my wife and I joined North Pointe Church, a church plant in North Binghamton with a vision of spreading God’s love with 100,000 locals. We are both very excited to join this vision even as we continue to work out our own faith.

In the next few years, I hope to start studying for a M.Eng in systems engineering. I intend to use my education professionally, but also to participate in short-term mission trips, where engineers evaluate and design buildings and infrastructure for missionaries and orphanages in the world’s desperate places.

In my spare time, I enjoy many hobbies, including (not limited to) cycling, designing web-based solutions, playing soccer, listening to music, watching movies, learning about new technologies, and salivating over German cars (VW/Audi, BMW, Porsche, etc.). I do not like artificially flavored banana candies, and wish that people would learn to use their turn signals properly.

The Family

In early 2008, I married a very special, beautiful woman, Elizabeth. We had a small wedding ceremony at Howe Caverns. With marriage came a crazy cat, Monte. We also have adopted into our family a dog, Ruby. Elizabeth and I enjoy spending our time traveling, worshiping, walking, eating, and working on our new home.

The Brand

Originally intended as a business brand, Solution Three has become more like a digital playground for a few projects, many of which are my own. Never having officially launched the brand, I have decided to embrace the destiny it seems to have been called to—a melting pot of various facets of my life.

With the redefinition of Solution Three as my hobby brand, charlesburger.com will cease to exist. It’s antique content, old technology, and lack of a backend make it the preferred candidate for the ol’ chopping block. Solution Three will be a mixed bag of blog entries, hobby “stuff”, the personal, design solutions, and home to various projects.