I was born in Alameda California, and raised in a small town in Oregon called Springfield. I the late 90's I moved back to the Bay Area and met my wife Tricia. The dot com crash resulted in my move to Las Vegas working for the City of Las Vegas where I am currently.

Professionally I'm a Software Architect, specializing in .net development with VB and C#. I also teach VB.net at CSN as a second job.

Additional interests include: anything science; astronomy, biology, nanotechnology, robotics, computer science and AI, anthropology, Archeology, Geology, trading stocks and mathematical analysis of stocks, and political science.

I don't believe in religion or a higher being. I believe the human body is a machine made of biological parts, and like any machine, someday we’ll figure out a way to repair it.

My favorite authors are all non fiction writers:
Carl Sagan
Ray Kurzweil
Jared Diamond
Richard Dawkins
Thomas Freidman