History
California Dreamin'
I was born and raised in Southern California, growing up in the 2000's surrounded by a rapidly changing technology landscape. Every year, a new gadget would come out that would immediately render last year's obsolete. My father worked for years in the telecom industry, where he helped get connectivity to businesses, airports, military bases - you name it. Because of this, my house often had a lot of technology laying around, and my curious mind often led me to reassemble whatever my dad had left out on the workbench, to various degrees of success.
As I grew older, I gradually took on more of the projects that my dad no longer had time for, which led me to getting very early experience with network infrastructure, systems management, and customer communications. Before I turned 18, I had already taken over all of his side-gigs, which helped me establish connections and get my mind oriented for the world I was about to enter.
In 2022, I decided to do the unthinkable: I left my home state. I was now heading to Seattle, Washington. This was something I had previously sworn to myself that I wouldn't do (because of my deep love for San Diego), but I had a hunger to push my career farther and do it in a landscape that was one of the world epicenters of technology. I'm happy to say that since making that move, I've been able to achieve all of the goals I had set for myself, and now I challenge myself to greater heights and more knowledge to acquire.