automation solutions for the publishing industry in the 1990s. Soghoian also authored a popular script collection called Sal's AppleScript Snippets, the ShadowCaster Quark XTension, two books, including AppleScript 1-2-3, and numerous magazine articles about automation. He was a special guest at one Leopard Tech Talk. He was a featured presenter for Quark, Thunder Lizard Productions, Apple, Seybold, and the Macworld conferences. Personal life Sal Soghoian was born into an Armenian-American military family, and spent his childhood growing up on Marine and Naval bases, including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from which he was evacuated during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In his college years, he attended the University of Virginia in 1969 for a short time, but later moved to Boston where he earned a degree in music from the Berklee College of Music. In the late 1980s he returned to Charlottesville, Virginia, where he worked at the digital printshop "Pixels." Although he is known for his work at Apple, he is also an avid jazz musician. During his time in Charlottesville, he played guitar in a band called "Blue Indigo". The band is notable because it was composed of Carter Beauford (drummer), LeRoi Moore (Saxophone), George Melvin (Hammond B3 organ), and Soghoian (guitar). Beauford and Moore would go on to later musical fame as founding members of the Dave Matthews Band. Jeff Decker and Phil Riddle joined, following their departure. He is the uncle of noted privacy researcher & activist, Christopher Soghoian. Bibliography Soghoian, Sal. (1994). The Quark XTensions Book/Book and Disk. Hayden Books. . Soghoian, Sal; Cheeseman, Bill. (2009). Apple Training Series: AppleScript 1-2-3. Peachpit Press. . Discography Blue Indigo, Catwalk Sal Soghoian, To Be with You References External links Sal Soghoian Mac OS X Automation: Automator, Applescript, and Services Automator.us Sal Soghoian Music Biography To Be with You [Liner Notes] Mastered for iTunes Living people Apple Inc. employees American people of Armenian descent Berklee College of Music alumni University of Virginia alumni Year of birth missing (living people)