about me
Let Us Start at the Beginning
I was born in Bowling Green, Ohio in 1971 and grew up in the Northwest Ohio region. It was a pleasant enough area in which to live as a child. Quiet, plenty of fresh air and many great friends. Of course I moved as soon as I graduated.
Moving On
I moved to Columbus and attended the Ohio State University majoring in Political Science with a minor in Anthropology. Naturally I ended up with a career in the computer industry. My time at college was one of the best of my life. A great experience that really has no comparison. I mean, all of the independence, none of the responsibility. That’s not really true, but it’s a phrase I enjoy using.
After college I worked on campus in various departments doing just about every job possible, finally ending up in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures where I found work as an accounts manager. It was a generic term that had me doing everything from scheduling classes for the professors to ordering liquid paper. It was here that I began to hone my computer skills. By the end of my stay there I had become the department’s computer guy.
Moving Yet Again
During that time I met my lovely wife, Kathryn. We moved to Lorain, Ohio a suburb of Cleveland a few years later to be closer to her family. I got a job as an IT Administrator at a downtown firm and advanced my skills even further. I had dabbled in the web before this job (I had a site for a while in the mid nineties), but I got the chance to create a corporate web site which really sparked my interest in this area of technology.
Madeline
In 2006 my wife and I welcomed our daughter, Madeline to the world. Having a child has changed my life more than I could ever have imagined. It’s both terrifying and wonderful at the same time.
Terrifying in that I feel I have no idea what I’m doing, but then nobody really does until they have a baby. I don’t have the words nor the space to explain all the wonderful things about being a father. They are just too numerous.