I started in tech in 2005 with my first help desk position on a large Navy contract. I knew I was good with computers, and that guided my most of my career. If I was given an opportunity, I was going to do well. I never thought of tech as this vast world of opportunity. For the majority of my career, it was an opportunity to survive.

From 2005-2016 my experience revolved around DoD contracts and on premises Microsoft enterprise environments. It was the "market" if you will in the Hampton Roads, VA area that I grew up. My wife was looking to pursue her PhD path, so we opted to move to the West Coast and experience something different. This led me to a job with Jet.com, an e-commerce start up that was purchased by Walmart in that same year. I remained with Jet, building and supporting infrastructure across the US and also in Dublin, Ireland until 2019 when I moved to the gloabl email team at Walmart. I began missing the newer technology, constant learning, and pace of work tha came with working for Jet.

After some reflection in 2020, I decided to pursue a path of becoming a software engineer. This is a path I am still actively pursuing and hope to eventually apply my previous experiences in infrastructure and operations to a software engineering role in the future.