A bit about me
There's a certain hunger some people have that forces them to read, research, experiment and stay awake until the late hours searching for answers. It's not a choice, it's a need as basic as food, water and sunlight. Have you ever had midnight roll around, and never mind work the next day, you keep going? Is there something, maybe just one thing, that really gets you fired up? The rest of the world may not "get it", but you don't care because you "get it", and that's all that matters. I believe this is the definition of passion, and I also believe there's nothing more important in life. Passion transcends topic, subject, and all other boundaries. It's what drives us to accomplishment and personal fulfillment.
San Francisco
I recently made the biggest move of my life, from Orlando, FL to San Francisco. This was in large part motivated by an opportunity to work for one of the coolest companies ever, Vertigo Inc.
Also I'm very lucky to have the chance to experience this amazing city with my beautiful girlfriend, Megan Hopkins (@orlandotechnuts) who moved here as well for her own opportunities. We both love touring nearby Sonoma and Napa Valleys (working on our wine snobbery), wandering around the city,
and we recently visited the amazing Monterey Bay. I've found that the people here are distinctively friendly and there seems to be a culture of intelligence and innovation. Being a true geek at heart it is very exciting
to be so close to Silicon Valley and Mountain View and I'm finding that the engine of entrepreneurship is alive and well here. I'm looking forward to meeting many of the brilliant folks that are literally creating
ideas and building businesses every day.
Science Nerd
What are some of the things that get me fired up? There is nothing quite as awe inspiring to me as the understanding of our universe that we can learn from modern physics. The insights revealed by quantum mechanics and relativity tell us that many of the assumptions about our world that we hold intuitive and indisputable are incorrect. Probability waves, double slit experiments and the relative nature of time and space simply don't fit into our "normal" view of how things are supposed to work. I love reading books by Brian Greene, Michio Kaku and I am lucky enough to have met Neil DeGrasse Tyson in person!Computer Geek
My full time passion is software engineering and I have to say, I consider myself truly lucky that I have been able to make a career out of it. I'm still amazed sometimes that people are
willing to pay me to program. Hell, I did this for years at home for free! There's nothing quite like that feeling at 3:00am when all the pieces fit together and all that code
finally does EXACTLY what you knew it would! It's satisfying, it's exciting, it's a wow moment! At my awesome day job I work as a Senior Software Engineer for the amazing Vertigo Inc.
in Point Richmond, CA. It is here that I work with an amazing group of extremely intelligent people developing very cutting edge projects. My specialized areas of interest are in the realm of HMI,
like Windows Touch and Microsoft Surface, and Machine Learning.
I am very excited about the startup culture here in the Bay Area and I am looking forward to meeting people and helping change the world.
