Played football in high school and college. Graduated as an aerospace engineer from University of Minnesota. Started a computer consulting firm with my brother and ran it for 12 years. Ran a marathon in about 4 hours. Donated almost 6 gallons of blood over the last 20 years. Work for Microsoft as a technology presenter focused on the developer tools talking about technology in 200+ live seminars to over 20,000 attendees. Built an online web site and blog that had more than 400K page views in the last year.