My hometown is Waxahachie, Texas. I went to the Art Institute of Dallas after high school. After college and a few years working, I joined the Marine Corps as an Infantry Mortarman (0341). I was stationed in Kanehoe Bay, Hawaii and was combat deployed once to Afghanistan. After I got out of the the Marine Corps I went back to programming. After a year I moved to California to be closer to my military friends. Once I got here they all got married and had kids or joined the military again.
I have been working with computers since 1995. My very first computer was an Apple Mac Performa 405. It was a family computer. I first got into HTML and programming when I bought my first personal computer in 1997. Angelfire and Geocities helped me learn HTML and Javascript. After high school I went to the Art Institute of Dallas for graphic design. After the first semester I switched my major to web design/multimedia after I realized I really suck at design. It was a good decision because code just always made sense in my head.
Every programming position I have ever taken never end up the way they started. One company I was with I was hired as a Flex developer. Eventually that migrated to Javascript development. Eventually it moved to XHTML, CSS, and Javascript. Eventually that turned into PHP development.
I type with three fingers. Left thumb is used for the space bar. Left and right index fingers are used type all of the other keys. Needless to say I have to look at the keyboard to type. But I can type a lot faster than you think with those three fingers!
