Who am I? Well, I'm a 39 year old geek from a small town in Pennsylvania who somehow managed to find a beautiful and brilliant wife with whom he will endeavor to see as much of the world as is possible in our brief time on this rock.

I worked on the neighborhood farm from the time I was 12 up through college, a job which taught me the value of hard work and the satisfaction of being really tired at the end of a hard day. There are times, working in my air conditioned office, when I actually miss throwing around 50lb. bales of alfalfa. I took on a few other odd jobs (roofing, pillow warehouse) during the summers of my college years. My college years were spent at Bucknell, where I enjoyed a fantastic academic career, a semester in England, and 4 years of varsity crew. After college came graduate school at UIUC, but you can read more about that in the "education" tab of this page.

These days, I enjoy spending most of my free time tooling around Chicago with my wonderful wife, Juliet. As mentioned above, we are both lovers of world travel, and together have been to Argentina, Uruguay, Switzerland, Greece, France, Scotland, England, and Spain. But you can read more about THAT in the "travel" tab.

I enjoy mathematics, ham radio, robotics, Ian Rankin and Philip K. Dick novels, playing the Lego Wii games with my wife and chasies with my dog, and every now and then a good single-malt scotch or cognac.