Pierce has never quite fit in the mold. His parents had a software company when he was a child and started him out on BASIC, CBASIC and Assembler. After attending Birmingham-Southern College and flirting with a career in the financial industry, he decided to go with his strengths and re-entered the IT sector just before the bubble hit.He spent the better half of the 1990s as a contracted software developer with various firms and government agencies before landing at Intermark Interactive in February 2000. Pierce struck out on his own in 2013 with the launch of 45000 Feet, one of the first AWS Consulting Partners in the state of Alabama. He followed that up in 2018 by launching Two Ravens, an innovation consulting firm based in the heart of Birmingham.In 2020, he was honored to be included in Leadership Birmingham as well as FINALLY graduate from Birmingham-Southern College with a BS in Economics. His mother was very proud.Pierce has no qualms about getting on stage in front of a crowd and pontificating. He is a trained improvisational actor, recently helping to launch Chaotic Good Improv, a comedy troupe based in Birmingham, performing virtually on Twitch during the pandemic and now live in multiple shows each month.In 2018, Pierce helped bring Fuckup Nights (yes, you read that right) to Birmingham. Each quarter, FUN Bham brings community leaders to the stage to have them tell their stories of professional failure. Mezcal is drunk.While on holiday in Reykjavik in 2019, Pierce met Gunnthor Sigurdsson, a 60 year old Icelandic punk rocker with a crazy beard and dozens of stories. Along with two now lifelong friends, he's currently working on a full length documentary of Gunnthor's life and the punk movement in Iceland.In September of 2011, he tested his hiking endurance with a trip up (and, more importantly, back down) Mount Kilimanjaro. He's visited four continents and is itching to hit the other three. He is also a mediocre musician in multiple instruments including saxophone, guitar, and piano and can sight read music, though he always has to transpose the bass clef.