I am a proud Wichita State ’07 graduate in business and Midwest transplant to New England. A few months after graduation, I embarked on a career change which prompted my move to Boston. This move enhanced my zest for computers and gave me the opportunity to find software development.

I started using SQL during college in Accounting Information Systems then making Excel macros shortly after. Little did I know that this would be my stepping stone into application development.

My expertise in Excel and familiarity with SQL landed me a job at a large investment bank which is where I would get my hands dirty in software development. These applications were monolithic and built on top of Excel or Access using Visual Basic for Applications. The job was a great introduction into development but I caught the development bug and I needed to learn more.

Around 2011 I stumbled upon Visual Studio and ASP.NET. Back then, I wanted to advance my skills and build a personal website. But learning and solving problems in development was fun and addictive. I have not wanted to look back ever since.