I was born at the Ohio State University. I spent my first year in an apartment, and then moved to a nourishing rural setting. After graduating high school, I moved on to attend the Ohio State University and work at a large computer retailer reading the system requirements from boxes to people (further interaction was frowned upon by management). After being told by numerous customers and co-workers that my talents were being wasted there, I amassed the courage to try a real job working for an interactive advertising agency in the area. Over the span of four years, I worked in all areas of site development and hosting.

When management decided that the key to financial success was perpetual bureaucracy and politics, most of the good help left. Luckily, the company overcame my reluctance to leave by laying me off and forcing me to try new things. I decided to flirt with business intelligence, and was quite enthralled until I began to realize that the problem with business intelligence is that business people ultimately interpret it. This often rendered the intelligence aspect meaningless.

Most recently I decided to go back to Internet work and took up a job as the Webmaster for a multinational manufacturer of scales and weighing systems. I am delighted with the experience as I finally get to see the other side of the client/agency relationship.

I am continuing my education part-time and am interested in developing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and studying artificial intelligence.

My hobbies include remote controlled helicopters and Internet programming.

I believe that extraterrestrial life does exist. Humans will probably detect it first with probes of the Earth’s atmosphere. Intelligent life will probably be discovered first by way of radio astronomy. It is hard to predict the benefits and dangers of such a discovery. If the intelligent life we discover is like us, we may be lulled into complacency by friendly faces instead of remembering the conquering instincts of humans. If I could study an extra terrestrial civilization, I would try to find out if we have overlooked any obvious solutions to problems. Maybe we have overlooked different types of simple machines for example. Also, I would be interested in learning about the different ways such civilizations may have used the simple machines we know about today.

Humans should transmit a beacon for others. It should be broadcast omnidirectionally at regular intervals and be designed to stand out from other interstellar signals. It should include information on how to establish communication with us, as well as representations of concepts that we understand to be universal, such as those found in mathematics.

I run Seti@Home to support research that I feel is critical to the future of humanity. SETI research could also find answers to some of the oldest questions conceived. I think the project is an excellent example of how mankind can use wasted resources (such as processor power) to advance humanity. I would like to see the Seti@Home project expand in the future to process data from a wider array of radio telescopes (as processor power increases) and even mount some expeditions to focus on nearby galaxies in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.