Passionate about bringing servant leadership to software development, I have worked in SMB organizations focusing on the Microsoft .Net stack. Everywhere I have gone, I have spent time to implement agile development methodologies that have significantly improved cross-functional communication and project execution. I am a big believer in Covey's 7 Habits framework and as a Christian believe that my employers and colleagues deserve both my best work product and my complete honesty at all times.I got the computer bug as a kid when my dad took me to work and the system programmer there let me type my name onto a punch card. Years later I started programming on a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I computer that I bought mail-order for $669 with my paper route money in 1980. I loved the challenge of automating things and seeing the results on the screen. I taught about using computers at my local library as a teen and helped out as an aide in the FORTRAN lab at college as a freshman. I earned a Bachelor's in Finance and went into Accounting in the Insurance industry and immediately started automating my team's monthly reconciliation tasks using dBase III+, parsing our commercial bank statements and comparing them to our mainframe extracts, saving hundreds of man-hours.After dabbling in sales for a few years I went back into Accounting and programming. After one particular layoff I took off a year and dedicated myself to learning C++, MFC, ATL and COM and getting an MCP certification to become a professional programmer. Less than a year into that Microsoft invented the .Net Framework, greatly simplifying all that material under a new brand. That was my introduction to the constant shifting-sands that is our industry.I've never looked back. I still love everything about programming computers. I did contracting for a number of years and so have proven I can work effectively in a lot of different kinds of environments, industries, and projects.I grew up in North Carolina and consider my roots to be as a southerner. But I have lived in Southern California for most of my adult life. I am active in my community and a leader at my church, have been happily married for 30 years and have two daughters graduated from UCLA and UCSB, both of whom are excelling in two different data analytics fields. In my free time I enjoy cycling, ice hockey, reading, and smoking fine cigars.