You might have found me here because of my email address, or maybe you were searching for the famous golfer, David DuVal (I am not him). You will find a litte about me here though. I won’t try to pretend that this website truly represents me yet, as I am much busier editing other website, or traveling or doing business stuff.
Right now, I am sitting in a lounge area in Tokyo writing this as I wait for a flight to Bangkok. From Bangkok, I will go to India, and then further west. I am really looking forward to seeing more of the World.
In the past I did lots of interesting things in my life, among those:
- Created phpLD (PHP Link Directory), which was once a software product that was used on a few hundred thousand websites. Of course, all software and websites would not be possible with the help of others.
- Taught thousands of people how to dance. I started dancing about 1993. I then went on to teach, and even was on the competition circuit for many years. I studied with approximately 15 World Champions, plus dozens of other great teachers. One of the best teachers was Jim Richmond, who helped me realize I could become a great dancer. Few people have heard of him, but he was very pivotal in my life.
- Created Dance Studio Manager with Shelley DuVal, and we have run this business together for more than a decade. It branched out into two more software companies (includeing Pole Studio Manager).
- Created some dance discussion websites, Dance Forums and Salsa Forums, which have been visited by millions of people, with hundreds of thousands of posts about dancing, written over a 20+ year period and still active today.
- Taught a poor Indian man how to do work online around 2003, and he went on to create a multimillion dollar company, employing hundreds of people. I am now collaborating with him on Auroin 2.0, and things are going great!
- And most recently I have been travelling the World. I hope to start to include more content here about my travels.
That’s it for now. I’m sure I missed some important things or people, but the great thing about life is you can keep revising your story!