Born and raised in Arkansas Sams' creative side led him to gain a BA in Architecture from the University Of Arkansas in the year 2000. Following graduation Sam moved NY,NY and then to California to pursue his architecture career with RSS Architecture. During his time at the firm he held the titles of CAD Manager, Project Manager and Construction Manager. In Nov. 2004, Sam moved his family back to his hometown of Fayetteville Ar, where he currently resides. In 2005 until 2008 Sam took a position at AFHJ Architects in Fayetteville Ar. With the downturn of the economy in 2008 he created his own company “Friday’s Design LLC”. Between 2008 and 2011 designed, taught and helped on production drawings for various clients. From 2011 to 2012 Sam returned to education at Northwest Technical Institute and received his diploma in Web programming. Directly after his re-education Sam joined the Farmeto team in the Ark Challenge (a startup incubator program.) During this time he met many other teams, one of which was StackSearch. After the Ark Challenge, in 2013, StackSearch now Qbox.io hired Sam to help with front end web development.In 2014, seeking more financial stability, he took the position of File Transfer Specialist soon after in 2016 he took a Network Security Analyst role specializing in automation scripting. Taking on more responsibility he moved into his current post as InfoSec Systems Operator 2 overseeing the Engineering side of various InfoSec Systems. Sam enjoys: Scripting, Drawing, Designing, Building, 3D Printing, Playing Guitar, Anime and Throwing Darts