Life has been a strange journey for me with many twists and turns. Raised on the hopes of one day taking over my father`s sawmill, I instead found a different calling in life. The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts opened my eyes to the performing and visual arts. While entrepreneurism runs in my blood, and I have run or helped run a number of businesses in my years, in 2005 I became a full time stage performer based out of Seattle, regularly touring the west coast. In 2008, I felt like I was at a financial glass ceiling in my performing career and switched occupations to one of my other loves, video games. After two years of working with the Microsoft xbox360 platform, operating in a number of different elements as a QA Dev and spending six months on a special team finalizing the Kinect platform for launch, I felt I was ready to move on to software engineering, the position I ultimately was after at the time. Unfortunately due to the lack of any sort of college degree, I was unpromotable. So I returned to higher education. First I earned an Associate of Science in Information Technology from Indian River State College, then later a BLA in Mathematics and Natural Sciences with a very heavy focus on artificial intelligence and neurology at Indiana University. While there though, I found myself drawn more and more back to writing and film. Today I would consider writing my main occupation while supplementing my income with software systems engineering and business/media consulting. ©