Husband & Father of 2 awesome little dudes, Brother, Friend and Seattle area native........seems like we're a minority now. I've been an IT Recruiter and Staffing professional for 14+ years including 10 years at TEKsystems, a brief 6-month stint on the Xbox Team at Microsoft and for the past 3.5 years at Summit Group Solutions located in Kirkland. I kind of fell into recruiting by accident. I actually started my career at iMandi.com (Willows Road, Redmond) after graduating from the University of Washington in '99. It was the tail end of the .COM bubble so, unfortunately my first job out of college was a short one but, it gave me a peak into the IT Start-Up environment and I actually had the opportunity to learn some basic HTML and build some very basic employee bio pages for my team. I wasn't technical enough at the time to pursue a career in development and engineering but, I knew I wanted to stay in the IT world. As fate would have it I ran into a former classmate who had just started his IT recruiting career and he urged me to check it out.......I did......and the rest is history. I've always had a passion for building things (these days it's generally lego's with my boys) so, now that my boys are a little older, I'm renewing my quest to learn more about s/w development. I'm starting with basic HTML and I'll build from there.