About Me

Born nude, helpless, and unable to fend for himself, Brian overcame his weaknesses and began speaking in the third person. Over the course of his life, he has lived in Birmingham, AL, Atlanta, GA, Manteo, NC and Chicago, IL. Of all those places, Chicago and Manteo are definitely tied for first. What can he say? He likes the beach.... and snow.

In a birthday surprise at the wise old age of 12, Brian received his very first computer. Actually, it was probably funded by a tax refund or something. At any rate, Brian became hooked on programming on his whopping fast 286 PC with a 10 meg hard drive, wowing his friends and family (okay, just family) (okay, just himself) with REALLY COOL programming in QBasic, the most badass programming language of all. At least until C was discovered. Also, Doom. Lots of Doom.

In college, Brian pursued a college degree in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics, but after making it all the way to the dreaded Calculus III, he decided he'd had enough of integrals (and a particularly grumpy software engineering professor), and instead chased creativity as far as he could. That wound up being all the way over at the Theatre Department. Switching his major to Theatre (but keeping CompSci as a minor), Brian managed to somehow break out of his introverted shell and become a superstar on the stage and the single most famous actor in Jacksonville, Alabama. Actually, it wasn't that hard, since the town was only like 2000 people. Still. Famous. Don't knock it.

After graduating with the INCREDIBLY USEFUL Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, Brian went back and got a Master of Science in Secondary Education. Don't ask why. After two years of teaching, though, he'd decided that his skills were best put to work in the area in which he started: programming.

So here he is. And there you are. And honestly, it couldn't get any better than that.