User:Damienchaos

The Person
DamienChaos, often abbreviated as "DC", is the Internet username of an American attorney specializing in corporate, intellectual property, and cyber law. Specific interests lie in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry due to involvement in a clinical trial which likely resulted in surviving Acute Mylogenous Leukemia as a teenager.

DC has Bachelor Degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, as well as a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law.

DC attended law school with notable figures such as S. Gregory Boyd and Daniel Johnson.

The Avatar
DamienChaos has been a fixture on the Internet since January, 1996. DC's first foray into the Internet began during periods of being homebound after receiving multiple rounds of chemotherapy for AML.

As medicines and blood products caused drowsiness and were administered during daytime hours, this resulted in an almost nocturnal sleep schedule. To fill the void of being up all night, DC bought some instructional books, made an old family PC DUN capable, and registered for a local dial-up Internet account.

For years thereafter, many late nights were spent logged into Internet Relay Chat and DC eventually migrated to MMOs such as TSO, There, Lineage 2, WOW, and others.

The Name
The username originated from two sources. In real life, DC's parents considered naming him "Damien", but the negative connotation associated with the name after the then-recently successful film "The Omen" caused them to eventually select another name. Due to the popularity and commonality of that name, and fact that it would be likely that such a single given name would be unavailable or difficult to obtain in differing media/outlets/websites, a surname was also chosen. This "Chaos" surname was selected from an offhand statement DC made in high school: "Chaos is but order we do not understand."

The username normally appears elsewhere as DamienChaos, but the capitalization of the given name is not permitted by Wikipedia's username creation service resulting in the name appearing as "Damienchaos".

Even though anonymity is less valued on the Internet today than it was in the 90's, the username is still utilized due to a preference for anonymity. Several minor publications have been authored under the username, and, as such, it has become a pseudonym.

Expertise
DC is licensed to practice law in the State of North Carolina and in front of the US Patent and Trademark Office. Expertise includes, but is not limited to: U.S. law (corporate, contract, intellectual property, cyberlaw), psychology, biology, ancient history, technology, and automobiles.

Disclaimer
Any online communications, postings and modifications to Wikipedia by DC are not intended to be legal advice, should not be interpreted as such, and are subject to the IANYL disclaimer.