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Erik Slotboom (also known as Oscar Slotboom) was born and raised in Sharpstown, Houston's prototypical freeway suburbia of the 1950s
and 1960s. As Houston's first large-scale instance of "freeway suburbia," the story of Sharpstown is one of the more interesting side-stories in Houston Freeways.
Erik graduated from Sharpstown High School in 1985 and went on to receive a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M in 1989 and an M.S. in mechanical engineering
from UT-Austin in 1990. After working as a project engineer for Schlumberger in Houston in the 1990s, Erik began working as a software developer in Austin's high-tech industry 1998.
In 2000 Erik started the web site TexasFreeway.com with
photographs and information about Texas freeways. The surprisingly high interest in TexasFreeway.com
prompted Erik to consider writing a book about Houston's freeways, a subject which had fascinated him
dating back to his childhood and the Southwest Freeway. When the dot-com bust hit in 2001, the time was
right to write the book and Houston Freeways was released in September 2003.
Erik has resided in Dallas since 2004, working as a sofware developer and slowly writing the Dallas-Fort Worth freeway historical book, tentatively planned for completion in 2011.
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