I was born on September 20th, 1974 in Brooklyn Heights, New York. At the time, both of my parents were busy working in the medical field - so I spent the first few years with my relatives. My grandparents looked after me in Hong Kong until I was two, and afterwards I stayed with my aunt in West Virginia.

I returned to New York when my parents purchased a home in Suffolk County, Long Island. Most of my life has been spent growing up here. I went to the Pumpkin Patch Day Nursery (it rocked!) and I attended the Commack Public School District for grammar school (Cedar Road Elementary, Burr Junior High, and Commack High School).

For a while, I thought that I would become a pediatrician. I volunteered at the OR in St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Smithtown (now St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center), the pediatrics intensive care unit at Stony Brook University Hospital, and the department of surgery at LIJ Medical Center. I also studied at Cornell University for a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology.

Nevertheless, things worked out differently. After completing computer science / graphics coursework at SUNY at Stony Brook and technical programs in Manhattan, I was hired by a startup telecommunications company in Long Island City, New York. I worked in the Information Technology department as a wide area network engineer for five years.

I recently graduated from NYIT's School of Communication Arts with a Master Degree in Computer Graphics. Much of my work involved supporting NYIT's entry in the 2005 Solar Decathlon. I'm currently looking for work as a creative web technologist.