After spending 4 1/2 years as a intel analyst in the U.S Army (active duty) and 18 months on active duty as an intel analyst in the Texas National Guard's Counter Drug support program, I decided to go back to school in order to learn a marketable skill for use in the private sector. Oddly, I chose psychology/sociology, which I find fascinating areas of study, but had (have) no interest in pursuing a career related to either field. In order to help facilitate the writing of research papers for my major courses I decided to purchase a computer and got a job as a night watchman at a local radio station. After a few months of using my computer as a glorigied word processor, I began to delve into writing software using Visual Basic 3.

After spending a total of seven years working in the online real estate media industry, I am now a contract software developer in the Austin area and have several personal software projects on the side.

I have two smart, beautiful children and a Bengal kitten named Mercedes.

I am a bit of recluse and while not yet paranoid . . . I am . . . a bit . . . anti-Big Brother. I am a supporter of strong encryption (even for mundane use) and an outspoken advocate for personal privacy and anonymity. I help support the Tor network by running a Tor server with lots of bandwidth freely given and I am member of the OpenPGP Alliance.