This is just a brief synopsis of my life and what I've been up to. I was born and raised in central West Virginia. Growing up I spent a lot of time in the great outdoors hiking, camping, and canoeing among other things. After high school I went on to study electronics at the illustrious west virginia institute of technology. After five long years of engineering courses, along with a healthy dose of music theory, I was ready for the real world. My first job took form as a communications consultant for cng communications (now spectrasite) where I worked full time for MCI. I started off working in the huge metropolis of Houston TX overseeing the installation and turnup of city-wide high speed fiber optic networks. From there I went on to large scale long distance transport systems, before returning to metro networks six months later. My next three years were spent as team lead and kept me busy overseeing the implementation of new networks and systems from Boston all the way to sunny LA. In 1999 while taking a well deserved vacation from MCIWorldcom I met Tim Wicinski who mentioned a great little startup company in Mountain View CA called tellme networks. I visited Tellme in the spring of 2000, and in autumn of that year decided to pack up and permanently move to the bay area. I now spend my days designing data center facilities and managing an enormous amount of telco circuits. Work keeps me away from from my favorite pastimes - biking and electronic music, however I now bike to work and just recently set up a music rig at work to maximize every free minute. <a href="mailto:">send mail</a> <meta name="resource" content="resume"> |