My name is Randall Dow. I am a system software engineering consultant. "Randix" comes from my first name, Rand, and the once obligatory "ix" from "Unix". There was a time when many companies having anything to do with the Unix® operating system had the letters "ix" in the name of the company.
This all started as Rand Enterprises in about 1979, then later it became Randix, and for a few years existed as Randix Systems GmbH. That is all history, now I operate as a freelance consultant under my own name.

My birthplace is in northeastern California. I have spent about half of my life in Munich, Germany. My working career started in Oregon and includes Germany and California.

I work mostly in the area of system software engineering. That means that I design and program the basic software that runs computers or computer communications. I have also spent time doing technical marketing, project management, system administration and applications development. Details are to be found under bio and projects.

After 22 years in Germany, my spoken and written German is fluent.