About: Bio

I’m from Troy, OH.

I was born at Stouder Memorial Hospital in Troy, Ohio on April 24, 1980. My parents are Beth and John, and I have 5 living brothers and sisters. I was home schooled through 10th grade, and spent the last two years of High School attending Dayton Christian High School in neighboring Dayton, Ohio.

After graduating from DCHS in the spring of 1999, I left Ohio and moved to Johnson City, Tennessee, where I attended Milligan College. I graduated from Milligan College in the Spring of 2003. I entered the Master’s of Information Technology program at East Tennessee State University that Fall, and took classes for about a year and a half. After that I ran out of money, and into problems with my student loans, and dropped out. I worked as a contractor for the ETSU’s IT department for about a year and a half, and picked up a lot of practical experience in Network & Server Management.

One day in 2006 a friend sent me a message. The company he worked for in the DC area was looking for a Systems Administrator. I submitted my resume, and 3 weeks later, I started work. I started work at MarketResearch.com on May 17, 2006.

While I worked at MarketResearch.com, the company grew by about 100% in all areas: personnel, revenue, office locations, and infrastructure. I started out as the singular Systems Administrator for the entire company (that included 3 offices and a collocated data center!). By the time I left, I was Sr. Systems Administrator and Infrastructure Management Team Lead. I had a small staff of Systems Administrators that worked under me, and we maintained the IT infrastructure for 5 offices and two collocated data centers.

I left MarketResearch.com in May of 2011, after receiving an offer from Teaching Strategies, Inc. in Bethesda, MD. I’m enjoying my work at TSI; having a real mission (other than profit) to support is awesome, especially since I think we’re really making a difference.

If you’d like a more in-depth, personal look at my life, check out my memoir: I’m from Troy, OH. If you’d like to see a current copy of my resume, check out my LinkedIn profile: