I have been helping people with technology since I started my first computer repair business in middle school. I moved from southwest Georgia to the greater Atlanta area for college in the early 2000s and was hired by the Division of Information Technology at Southern Polytechnic State University in late 2002. I picked up enough work from there that I did not finish my bachelor's degree until 2019, after SPSU had been incorporated into Kennesaw State University. My degree is in Integrative Studies, which combined credits earned in electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, and leadership studies to satisfy my graduation requirements.

Outside of mapping and automating systems in organizations around the planet, I stay active in the global tech community as both a presenter and an event organizer. Most notably, I have been organizing devopsdays Atlanta since 2016. Any talk I've given that's been recorded and is available online can be found on my Talks page. The devopsdaysATL youtube channel has a catalog of the talks we've been fortunate enough to have the budget to record over the years, which includes a wealth of information from a variety of world class technologists.

My individual community efforts combined with my work organizing devopsdays Atlanta to percipitate my center of practice, Ecology Computing. Ecology is currently operating as a not-for-profit organization as I wrap up my 2025 sabbatical. While I love volunteering for interesting projects that help other people, I do have personal expenses to cover and am once again looking for either contract or full time work as of June, 2025.