I started programming C++ while attending Northwest Missouri State University, but ended up switching my focus to Computer Networking. I earned my bachelors degree at DeVry and started my career as a helpdesk technician. Although I planned to specialize in network security, I kept creating web projects, both professionally and just for fun. These projects always absorbed my attention, and time just flew by while working on them. That is when I started to realize the programming might be for me after all...
During my time at the United States Department of Agriculture, I was tasked with a project dealing with very repetitive troubleshooting of the network. I came to the conclusion that t...