I got my start professionally in 2006 when I went full-time into the interactive media and web development industry. I was fortunate to have landed a career building position with a small but very talented agency that boasted clients such as PepsiCo subsidiaries Tropicana, Quaker Oatmeal, Life Cereal, Rice-A-Roni, and many more.

After working aggressively on interactive media & web for a few years, I moved on to focus more on custom application development working on a broad range of projects which include bank loan management software, e-learning software, and digital menu board systems used in KFC, Long John Silvers, and Taco Bell. I've also worked on a team for an education tech start-up funded with millions by Herff Jones.

A number of these years brought me some life in data centers managing servers and small clusters, so I'm no stranger to those environments. I continue to do some work within local data centers today and actively manage multiple small compute clusters.

The real twist comes many years into this career when I decided I needed a break. I needed real action in my life, so I went to work in the wireless construction industry for a while performing mostly L&A work for US Cellular 4G LTE upgrades. I started from the bottom learning the basics of tower work and often lead by fantastic examples of what not to do. Needless to say, while there was certainly some real adventure and real personal challenges here, that industry was not for me.

So after leaving the wireless construction industry, it was back to the software consulting industry until I could figure out a better balance of tasks to be fulfilled in my work. After a few years, I was presented with the perfect career idea for a tech geek that likes extreme thrills.

Enter the WISP industry. A place where I could occasionally climb towers and other cool (and totally not sketchy) structures while still achieving a great ROI on my years of investment into software and server environments. Furthermore, this industry continues to bring me new learning opportunities regularly. A great work ethic combined with a fairly rare skill combination has proven to be very fruitful in the WISP industry for me, and I'm thankful.