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| I was born in Amarillo, Texas and lived there for the first 26 years of my life. I graduated from West Texas A&M University with a degree in Psychology and a taste for wild women. One part of that sentence isn't true. I played soccer and golf at WT, managed to spend a year with the jazz band as a tenor saxophonist only because I had excellent connections, and did some theater because in college, they have to give you a part even if you are terrible. Which I mostly was.
I moved to the DFW area in 1997 to begin an experiment called grad school or what I like to call "How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Enjoy Being Poor." Turns out, my scholarly abilities hadn't exactly improved in the 2 years since undergraduate work and I dropped out in 1999 to join The Princeton Review as a course director where I had been teaching test prep to uninterested high school juniors and extremely eager business school students all around the Metroplex. In 2000, a friend of mine got me a job as a VB programmer at a tech company in Dallas writing IVR software for third party bill payment. From that, I moved into more of the back-end software that interacts with payment processors. I really miss VB. All of that sentence isn't true. I enjoy growing things in my garden even though they usually grow new things themselves once I put them in the fridge. I love to play softball and golf, I am an infrequent but passionate fly-fisher and I love cooking. I have a wonderful wife, 1 overactive, lovable pit bull rescue dog and three cats who could care less if I ever darkened the doors of the house again as long as the automatic feeder kept working. I'm excited to be joining Improving because the culture here is wonderful and everyone has so many varied experiences to learn from. I'm looking forward to being the worst person in the band for a little while. |
