My background includes service in the U.S. Air Force AFCS ("Air Force Communications Services") division, as a Satellite/Wide Band communications tech 304x0 for voice and data in the 2nd MOB ("Mobile Operations Battalion"), 2nd CCG ("Combat Communications Group") and AFCS NATO as well as later providing consulting services and/or creating custom software for the U.S. government, branches of the U.S. military, major banks worldwide, major brokerage firms, stock exchanges, such as the NYSE, Skype and other companies.

With a focus, on their very complex real-time communication needs by providing custom software and/or modifications to software by me, as well as, in many cases, creating software that does automatic load balancing of multi-processor based systems to support their real-time communications needs and processing requirements of these entities.

Which is how I got the nickname after founding the Overlord company and creating the Overlord balancing software:

 http://www.overlord.com/Overlord_profile.html

 http://www.overlord.com/Balancer_Brochure.html

When I founded the Overlord company and created the original Overlord balancing software, when people learned of my role as not only being the president of the company, but also being both the founder of the company and also the author of the balancing software, they would often say things like "Ah..so you are The OverLord" or "Ah...so you are The Uber OverLord" of OverLord, as well as being called the hacker slang of "ZOverLord", which stands for "The OverLord". 

Hence how I got these nicknames.

I am and have been a systems programmer consultant with 42 years of experience with a focus on communication interfaces and automating system resource utilization/allocation, which includes, 7 years of working with the Skype public API, wrappers for the public API and also now SkypeKit.

I also have been working with Skype4COM before it was known by that name as well.

I have been a moderator in the Skype forums and a beta tester for Skype as well as a consultant for Skype and currently I am a Super User both in the Skype community forum and in the SkypeKit forum and donate my time to help Skype developers and Skype end-users.