Born in Southern Michigan in November of a year I won't mention, I enjoyed life in a small town with a large family. I spent the summers dividing my time between my grandfather's farm helping in the family business and earning money with my own lawn and garden care enterprise.
Graduating from high school I moved on to a private college in Minnesota where I earned a BS in Theology and Cross-cultural Communications. As part of my studies I spent one year in Germany, where I returned immediately after graduation. 
Working in various capacities with non-profit organizations I ended-up as a communications consultant conducting large ethnographic surveys and passing the published results on to various groups. This time also afforded a number of opportunities to visit Eastern Europe during those sad years preceding their political reforms.
Leaving non-profit work, I jumped full-force into the IT industry during the height of the .com boom as a business analyst. After having spent years conducting and documenting the complexities of sub-cultures, defining business processes and documenting them in ways developers can understand was a natural move. The forward looking innovative world of information technology demands people who can't stop thinking and dreaming. It's an uber exciting future. I'm addicted.
For an overview of my work history, click on Résumé?.
