I was born in Ashland, Ohio in 1975 and grew up on the family farm raising crops and cattle. Throughout my youth, I was active in 4-H, taking a variety of projects, but concentrating mostly on woodworking, model rocketry, and goats. In high school, I became involved with the FFA and participated on the Dairy Cattle judging team and the first parliamentary procedure team from Ohio to compete in the national contest in Kansas City, Missouri.

In December of 1998, I graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering. It has long been an ambition of mine to work as a programmer in the video games industry, so during my college career, I took as many classes pertaining to graphics programming as I could.

Since graduation, I have worked as the lone programmer for Jamination Productions, Inc. in Grandview, OH. My job has been primarily updating and developing new software for creating animation for display on scoreboards and video boards. I have had to port all of the existing code from DOS to Windows NT/2000. Having the opportunity to do this has allowed me to gain fluency in developing Windows programs, as well as helping me to advance my knowledge of computer graphics programming. Other tasks I have performed while at Jamination include writing scripts for 3DS Max and, most recently, developing plugins for Discreet Combustion.

In January 2001, I took on a part-time job working for the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center to maintain the Hydroponic Vegetables website. My tasks here have included redesigning the website to assist in providing information to growers, as well as creating spreadsheets and Java applets to provide growers an interactive learning tool.

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