About me
Who am I and why do you care? Well, I'm gonna try to answer one of those questions. Honestly, I don't know why you care.
Hawaii to Virginia
I grew up in Hawaii and spent my first 13 years of life basking in the Hawaiian sun and surfing year-round.
I had a lot of good times, but eventually my dad retired from the Navy and we moved to Northern Virginia, home of the beltway bandits and government contractors. He rode the wave of government defense spending for the next 20 years, and I grew up to be a gadget nut who was always tinkering.
A gadget nut
My dad bought me a Commodore 64 in 1982 and I learned how to amaze everyone with my newly found programming skilz. Except back then they were just skills and usually I just amazed my mom. I was a proud member of the Computer Club in high school and took every computer class they had for the next 4 years.
In 1985 I started at Virginia Tech as a Computer Science major. I had a rough start, but eventually it started to click and I loved every aspect of CS, from the hard core math to the creative beauty of elegant software design.
Work
I've spent my whole career building software, from the Department of Justice in 1990 to Microsoft, helping build the cloud. Today I work at Carahsoft, alongside my son, and this is where I will work till I retire.
