Vivtek is a sole proprietorship in Bloomington, Indiana Budapest, Hungary Ponce, Puerto Rico. I am the proprietor, and my name is Michael Roberts. I've been a sole proprietor since 1996, and I wouldn't go back now if you paid me. Well. If you want to pay me a lot, I'd consider it strongly. But it would have to be a lot of pay.

I used to do programming work-for-hire, but I now earn most of my money with technical translation (from German, French, Spanish, Italian, or Hungarian into English.) I enjoy programming immensely -- I just can't run a programming business very well, whereas freelance technical translation kind of runs itself.

No matter what email address you send things to @vivtek.com, it will get to me. My canonical email is michael@vivtek.com.

You may notice that this address appears at the bottom of each page on this site. Use this address when sending me physical items such as cash or Anthrax virus. [Note: yes, for the last several years we know that anthrax isn't a virus, but this is legacy text, so thus it stays.]

My phone number is (787) 377-5225. Please don't abuse it; to date, no-one has, so that's good. Be advised that I am much more amenable to contact via email, as I can prioritize that. Your best bet is to initiate contact via email and arrange a time to talk on the phone.

And now I have a fax number! Rather than babysit a fax machine, I signed up for efax.com and now have a free fax number: (801) (need to look this up). At Vivtek, we aim to please!

(1/19/00) Just to celebrate the new millenium (yes, I count from zero) I updated my resumé! Go take a look! It's getting rather cluttered...