I was born in Conroe Texas on May 27, 1968. Then my family moved to Rock Springs when I turned seven, almost on the day of my birthday. My family and I spent five years there. While living there I learned how to snow ski or as I like to call it; falling down mountains with a sense of dread. I also got involved with wrestling. Not the WWE type, but real olympic style wrestling. Then during the middle of my sixth grade year we moved Ogden Utah where I spent rest of my non-collegic school career. Utah is a great place to grow up because there are plenty of ski resorts and things to do. While there, I became involved in the Boy Scouts and eventually received my Eagle.

Then a few weeks after I graduated from Bonneville High School, we moved to Laredo Texas. The least said about that the better. Just kidding, I liked Laredo and will always have fond memories of my friends from there. I went to the local Junior College while spending my weekends studying and having fun with my friends... even going across the border once in a while. I got to learn the ins and outs of Tequila, (ssshh... mom and dad shouldn't read that part) but I was always sensible enough not to drink and drive.

After a couple of years there, we moved back to Conroe. I started going to school at Sam Houston State University a few months later. Then after couple of years at Sam, I got the chance to co-op at the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) Laboratory for a few months in DeSoto, south of Dallas. Then I went back to Sam to finish out my BS in Physics. I graduated from SHSU with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics with a minor in Mathmatics the Spring of 1992 and then I received my Masters degree the Spring of 1995, with a Thesis on the Design and Temperature Tests of Electron accelerating Copper Cavities for Industrial Applications If you notice the three year space between degrees, that is because I spent another year working at the SSC (this time in Waxahachie). That was before Congress closed it down. (the buttheads) After getting my Masters, I spent a couple of years working towards my Doctorate in the Physics Department at Texas A&M. Unfortunately, I got a bad case of the burnouts while there. I just didn't want to study or do homework, which isn't good in graduate school. So, I went and found a job. Lucky me...

I moved to Massachusetts in May of 1997 when I took a job with Raytheon Company. After working in Tewksbury for nearly two years I was given a chance to work on an air traffic control system in Vancouver British Columbia. This turned out to be an extremely exciting and fun couple of years. The job was great and I got to hang out with some of the most amazing people I've ever met. Some of whom were even originally from Vancouver, which is surprising if you know the city. Vancouver is a great city, I would move back in a heart beat if I had a good reason. I went to more concerts, shows and events while living there than I had gone to in all the years prior to that.

Then after completing that assignment the summer of 2001, I returned to Massachusetts to do some more work for the company. This new job involved a lot of traveling over the next five years. One year, I was gone nine out of twelve months. But that's ok because I got to visit South Korea, Japan, Germany and many places in the US (like Alaska and Hawaii) that I wouldn't have gone to under normal work conditions. The summer of 2006, I got to work on a new project which didn't envolve traveling as much, just a few trips to the San Francisco area. But that didn't last long because of funding issues and politics.

In August of 2007, after working in Vancouver again for a few months I took a small vacation, including a side trip to Dallas to visit some friends there and explore the possibility of taking a new position within Raytheon there. Fortunately, this worked out and I moved back to Texas in Novemenber. My new job entails being the software lead for a small modeling and simulation group. It is also nice to be back in Texas since my family is now a short drive away.