Born March of 1973 in California and raised in Utah, Missouri and Tennessee I went on to live in Hawaii, then joined the Air Force and saw a chunk of the world. I grew up loving and living in the outdoors and I continue that passion today with my family. In my youth I worked on ranches and began breaking horses when I was 14, today I live on a small 5 acre farm with horses, cows, pigs, chickens and everything else you’d expect. I maintain a half acre garden and am very interested in preparedness and survival skills. I am the oldest of 7 kids, my Mother comes from a family of 9 kids. I currently have 8 children. Our youngest, Serenity, was diagnosed with Leukemia in 2008 and we’ve been a cancer fighting family ever since.
When I was young I was heavily exposed to computers and began learning QBasic. By the time I was 12 I was writing my own programs. When I joined the Air Force at 19 I became an Information Specialist and began refining my programming skills. After the military I attended College studying Computer Science and Business. I soon began working as a Business Analyst and Software Engineer. Over the years I became an expert at analyzing a business’ processes and creating solutions for them, then I would write the software to implement that solution. Along the way I started The Gatherers (General Automation Technology, Human Error Removal, E-Commerce Resolutions Specialists) and worked independently as a contractor. This continued for 6 years until Paul Allen offered me a position as the COO for his Internet Incubator, Provo Labs. After Provo Labs was realigned to a holding company, I started my own venture, 42Co, were we built several web crawling and data analytics engines. After 42c0 I joined a mid-size company called LaneLinks where we built transportation management software for private fleets.
I have currently gone independent again and am doing private development contracts and working on some of my own projects.