About Me

I'm a native Texan who grew up in the DFW area. I am an avid technology enthusiast and I love spending my time learning new things. I worked while I was in school and it took me some time to find my niche. Working in customer service, being a deli clerk, and later a server, I found myself always feeling most rewarded when I solved someone's problem.

While attending the University of Texas at Dallas I had originally been enrolled in the Global Business Program. I wanted to study abroad and live in another country. Not simply visit and take in the finely tailored tourist experience, but rather to stay in the real Japan. I needed to pay rent, buy groceries, meet people, and invest myself in a foreign land I had spent the previous two years preparing. I was going to Higashi-Hiroshima in the countryside.

I enrolled in a class which operated as an internship with the university. It was a challenging experience that took up most of my time. While my fellow classmates in the study abroad program were out having fun every day I would be working late alongside two of the best people I have ever met. I did not know at the time I was getting to know the woman I was going to one day marry and the best man at my wedding in China a few years down the line.