I spent my relatively innocuous earlier years in Northern VA. Despite having taken a plethora of liberal arts courses, managed to obtain a BA from UVa in Econ, w/ a minor in Environmental Studies. Did the travelling thang for a year before buying my Master's in Environmental Management from Duke with a concentration in Resource Economics and Environmental Policy.
After working as an environmental scientist for five years in NC, congressional whims effectively shut down our department. Weary of the field's vicisstudes, and less-than-enamored with Jesse Helms, I moved to California to work in the software industry. Needless to say, the industry did not exactly guarantee job stability. By most company's standards, any employee who had worked there for more than two years was considered an old-timer. Indeed, most of the companies had not even existed for as long as I had held my previous job. Regardless, I ambitiously jumped into the fray and, while fully employed, even worked part-time at starting a software venture partnership for two years. After the dotcom bust, I move to Santa Monica to get an MBA at USC in Los Angeles, CA. Currently, I'm back in the San Francisco Bay area, working for a large IT company.
Hard work deserves hard play...leisure time is largely devoted to writing, photography, mountain biking, and occasional volunteering.
Undaunted! My cohort Dubie and me (on the right) having successfully captured our elusive quarry in the mountains of Santa Barbara--a dirty sock.