On July 11th, 1988, I was born at Georgia Baptist Medical Center (now Atlanta Medical Center) and went to school in the Marietta area, a suburb outside of Atlanta, GA. Many subjects interested me in my youth − physics, architecture, roller coasters, economics, history, psychology, and politics. However, I was enrolled at the J. Mack Robinson School of Business in pursuance of a B.B.A. in Computer Information Systems (CIS) during my first two years at Georgia State University.

As I completed business and programming-oriented courses, a strong interest developed in changing my degree to a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a minor in CIS − I felt that this would give me hands-on control. When reevaluating my early ambitions, I discovered that principles from computer science are or will, at some point, be applied to all of them.