Dave Plummer

David William Plummer was born in 1968 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, where he was also raised. As a child, Plummer spent much of his free time at his father's hardware store and his grandfather's workshop. He attended Miller High School, but dropped out during his senior year. After working various jobs and programming a computer game with a friend, he returned to high school at the age of 21 and graduated. He also wrote a book about his experiences with autism and how it has impacted his life, titled ''Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire: Everything I know about Autism, ASD, and Asperger's that I wish I'd known back then''. ==Career==

Plummer moved to Redmond, Washington, in 1993 to work for Microsoft as an intern in the MS-DOS department, working for Ben Slivka. He was later offered a full-time job with the company for $35,000 a year. Plummer said in a 2021 interview: "As intern I wrote a bunch of major features, like Smart Drive cache for CD-ROM, and DISKCOPY". During his tenure with Microsoft, Plummer's works included MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows NT, Task Manager, and Space Cadet Pinball. Plummer left Microsoft in 2003 In 2006, SoftwareOnline was sued by The Washington State Attorney General's Office for alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Act after complaints were made about two products called "Registry Cleaner" and "InternetShield". SoftwareOnline agreed to pay $150,000 in civil penalties, plus $250,000 that was ultimately suspended following compliance with all terms in the settlement, as well as $40,000 in legal fees. He also founded Xeriton Corporation during this period, whose major product was the Blue Phone technical support service. In December 2009, Xeriton was sold to Support.com for $8.5 million. He continues to code in his free time and in 2018 started a YouTube channel called ''Dave's Garage'', where he creates a variety of content regarding computer programming and his personal interest, cars. Plummer has given lectures at universities including the University of Regina (2018, 2020, 2022) and the University of Oxford (2021). ==References==