From a young age I loved computers and remember my first electronics. I remember getting a Palm Pilot and using it in middle school, learning the weird Grafiti writing technique and then a smorgasbord of new PDA’s, where I used it every day to take notes and maybe a game or two. I finally got enough money to buy my first computer in high school and loved editing videos and learning all about video and audio production. I continued learning more about computers and how they worked, from hardware to software. My first set of coding was learning to program macros in Word and Excel and loved how methodical it was and the feeling I got after solving a hard problem. I started working on websites, by Working with HTML and learning more about JavaScript and then started studying computer science at college. I knew I wanted to get a job to improve my computer science skills so I started working at Intel as a Lab tech and was able to find ways to automate data collection and create test harnesses for UX scientists where I could be a part of merging cutting edge technology and engineering. I then started working on robotics and created ways to have a tablet run the robotic movements. Nothing was more exciting than programming something in the digital world that moved something in the physical world. During college I founded Gate to the West (now called SparkBytes) as I love to create technology that works for people and make technology seamless to people who use it. I’ve created a number of internal applications for companies and we’ve been working on Olleh the last few years. I started working at iGrafx after graduating and love the challenge of bringing new technology to iGrafx and the challenge of creating cloud architectures that will need to stand the test of time and scale, and love managing and mentoring new and upcoming software engineers to find their passion in computer science.