About

Just trying to find my way in this mad, mad world.  I grew up in suburbs of Tacoma, WA, playing basketball and cultivating an extensive collection of X-Men comics. I graduated from Steilacoom High School with the 3.25gpa that indicates I can do the work but I’m lazy and I don’t really take myself that seriously. My senior year I was voted ‘Most Creative’ and wrote a ten-page secret love letter opining for a girl I’d never met (which was subsequently passed around and read by almost every other girl in the school). For higher learning, I attended Washington State University (GO COUGS) where I partied like a rock star AND received a Bachelor of Arts degree in ‘Communications’, focused on advertising because I had become convinced it was my destiny to create the next, great Superbowl commercial. Unfortunately, when I got out I didn’t find many ‘Super Bowl Commercial Writer’ gigs in Help Wanted so I settled for a lowly  ‘Marketing Assistant’ position at a very small medical supply company in Woodinville. I built them an HTML webpage, which was essentially an online brochure with some pretty pictures and links, so my boss slapped me on the back and said ‘Wouldn’t it be great if we could sell our products through this?’  Of course it would, so I bought ‘E-commerce For Dummies’ and taught myself how code, building a simple shopping cart and database.  I had no idea at the time it would spiral into 25-years as a Software Engineer, the last seventeen of which I’ve spent with Microsoft. No complaints, though. I guess I’m one of the lucky few that love what I do and who I do it for. But I still think I could have crushed that Superbowl ad thing. Turns out the ability to build software and transform data into information is more marketable than a weaponized form of sarcasm. Weird, right?! Oh, I have a wife, three kids and a dog that put up with me, and we all share a very old, very small house in the middle of Bellevue that just won’t @$#% stay fixed. Anyways… Thanks for stopping by!