I have been interested in technology for many years (since those wonderful green screen Apple PCs came out way back when)!  These days, I take the years of knowledge I have learned and give back to the technology community.  Living in Seattle has afforded me the ability to meet and work with several talented individuals (Seattle is the smartest city in the US and likely on the planet).

I hope that my life is one that people will respect and look at as a successful existance (I think therefore I am, so I think I exist, at least my worldly brother would say it something like that). I have tried to categorize my life into the major points. I think these are those points in your life that you will never forget. Times that are good and bad, but have made me who I am today and will be tommorow. So enjoy my life, I have...

• Birth
  • Born in beautiful Oklahoma on a June afternoon! Well, I can't say much about my birth, other than it was in Oklahoma somewhere (gotta be careful these days, with identity theft, after all I"m a CISSP, so those things are pretty important to me!). Oklahoma was a great place to grow up and I can't wait to go back and visit.
• Mother
  • All about my mom
• Father
  • All about my dad
• Brother
  • All about my Bro!
• Sister
  • All about my sis!
• Growing Up
  • Growing up in a small town has it's advantages, not a lot of opportunities to excell, but not much room to screw up!
• College
  • The Tulsa Golden Hurricane's power runs through me!
• IBM
  • IBM is, and always will be a big part of my life...
• Givens Consulting
  • My first go at becoming my own boss!  I know that it takes an enormous amount of disipline and strategy to develop and grow your own technology business.  Luckily, IBM gave me the knowledge that I needed to do it on my own.
• Ontain Corporation
  • A great startup!  A leading-edge technology firm for the QSR (Quick Service Resturants) industry.  This is where I proved my abilites to develop with the best of them.  Although, I have come to realize that programming is a challenging task (and I loved solving problems - I solved every problem that I came across).
• Avanade
• Architecting Connected Systems
• What am I doing now?