When I was 13 my father and a few of his technicians built a MicroAce computer. Dad brought it home to me and I started learning to program in BASIC. I was hooked.
In 1985 I entered Auburn University and began work on my Bachelor of Computer Engineering degree. I graduated with my Master of Science in Computer Engineering in 1992 and went to work as a software developer.
I'm currently working as an Application Architect in Jacksonville, Florida. My primary technical focus is on engineering web-based systems with Java and the JVM. I've recently started using Scala as an alternate language.