I was born in Reading, PA which is a small city just outside of Philadelphia. My earliest memories were when I was about 3 years old and my dad would take me to Philadelphia to see the trains that were all around the city. I remember looking over a bridge and seeing what appeared to my inexperienced mind to be a sea of train tracks that went on forever!

 

My family moved around to many different places in a very short amount of time. We spent some time in Nashville, TN where I became the king of the big wheel! I remember spending some time in Salisbury, Maryland where we would go to the beach every weekend. I remember living in Cincinnati when I was 7 and got my first remote control car without a wire as well as learned how to swim! Then I mostly grew up in Buffalo, NY where my family still lives to this day.

 

New York was a good place to grow up. The weather was harsh in the winter and hot in the summer. I spent my early years playing soccer and learning the guitar. I went on to get a music degree in classical guitar performance and degrees in Computer Science and Math from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 2000.

 

I moved out to Arizona to look for work in the computer graphics industry. I wasn’t much of a video game player, but I loved to create them. I got a few jobs doing computer graphics at different game development studios, as well as one of them in California but quickly starting moving towards web development. I am currently working with C#/ASP.NET, SQL, and AJAX.

 

I am the classic example of the expression, “Jack of all trades; master of none!” There are many things I do well like, playing hockey, soccer, ping pong and guitar, but I have not mastered anything.