Bio
I was born in 1979 in Kingsville, Texas. I graduated high school in 1998 and was valedictorian of my class (there were a whole 60 of us!).
I attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX from 1998-2002 where I earned a Bachelor's Degree in Computational Mathematics (think Math and Computer Science double major with one less research project).
After graduating, I decided against attending graduate school immediately and was able to obtain a systems administrator position within the university where I managed a small number of Linux servers that ran things such as Apache, Tomcat, qmail, Courier IMAP, etc.
After doing that for 2 years and deciding that I didn't want to do it for any long period of time, I decided to attend graduate school and here I am in Ames
I really enjoy listening to music (classic rock, modern rock, hard rock/heavy metal), reading books (scifi/fantasy,cyberpunk,horror,etc.), playing video games, playing basketball and football, and just hanging out w/friends
