About Me

Education, Career, Goals, and Life

Early Life, Education and Experience

I grew up in a quiet Suburb of Northern New Jersey in a house filled with Technology. My father was a a programmer and so he had blessed (or cursed us) with technology at a very young age. I started programming when I was 15 because of my love for videogames. I had wanted to develop my own.

I created my own class with some tech-minded buddies and we made Tower games over the course of the school year. It was awesome to release a product that we created from scratch and had fun with. You can view this project on my github here.

After three solid years of introductory Comp Sci courses, I decided to attempt it at university. I attended Florida Atlantic University in Fall 2015 and succesfully completed in Spring 2019.

It was right before I graduated that the US Navy came to my school to recruit. I flew out to Washington DC from South Florida and met with my future co-workers. After two years at the Navy creating and progressing their DevSecOps initiative, I moved on to Booz Allen Hamilton. While working for Booz Allen Hamilton, I decided to go back to school and get my Masters in Software Engineering.

I am currently now almost half way through my Masters at George Mason University and I am enjoying the program immensely. What I thought was going to be restrictive to my life is actually one of the best decisions that I had ever made. It is actually fun to be back in school (well, at your own pace at least).

During this start of my Masters program, I received an offer to come back to a more managerial position with the Navy and some of my old co-workers. I am now working on Digital Transformation with the Navy enterprise and furthering their DevSecOps capabilities and mission. It's a lot of fun!

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