I was born in Rockford, IL, on July 5, 1951, but I got to Texas as quick as I could. My father worked for a company that moved him often. When we got to Texas, they wanted to move him to Colorado. He said, no thank you, I am finally home. I have been to many places in the United States, but, I have never questioned that I was where I wanted to be. My Family came to Texas in 1957 when I was 6. We lived in various places in south/central Texas until we ended up in Llano in 1967 where my parents live to this day.


I graduated from Llano High School in 1969. Several years later, after completing a Commercial Diving School in Houston, I joined the Navy (in 1973) to become a Navy Diver. I was honorably discharged as a Petty Officer 2nd Class Machinist and 2nd Class (Salvage) Diver in 1977.


The computer generation was taking hold in the late 70’s. I decided to attend Southwest School of Electronics and went to work in the computer industry in 1981. Working as a hardware technician, I advanced to Service Manager at Unico, Inc. I continued to learn as IBM PC’s came on the scene during the mid 1980’s. As I moved on to other jobs in related fields, computers still remained my focus. I took on the task of learning and becoming a network administrator in the late 1980’s, and continued through the late 1990’s, by providing Server, Desk Side, and telephone support in various small companies.


I joined the team at Tivoli Systems, Inc. (an IBM owned company) in 1999 as a software verification engineer. Having a background in network administration and support of Windows, Netware and 4 flavors of Unix operating systems the transition to software test was easy. I am now an Senior IT Specialist with IBM.


I first moved to Cedar Park in November of '84. We moved back to the outskirts of NW Austin in 1990, and moved back again in 1996. I have been a resident of The Crossing at Carriage Hills for the last 15 years. I have been married for 28 years on 9/11 (we will never forget our anniversary). My wife Debbie has been a stay at home mom for our two children. My daughter, Kristin, is graduating UT, and my son , Matt, works for Boeing in Everett Wa.


My hobbies include, very early morning workouts and as much Golf as I can manage to get in.