I am:

I'm 6'2" tall and I usually weigh about 210lbs. This isn't the ideal weight for rock-climbing, but I try. (I'm very trying. haha) I have brown hair, hazel eyes, and a single eyebrow. When I wear baseball hats, I connect all but three tabs.

I have a current picture on the first page of this website. Please don't stalk me.

More than you want to know about me:

I was born February 1977 in Nottingham, England. Yes, Robin Hood and his merry men lived in nearby Nottingham forest.

Our family moved to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from Sheffield, England in 1984; my dad was imported by Nortel. I felt very out of place at first, but have since grown to love Ottawa. It's a beautiful city.

I am the oldest of three brothers; Ben (2 years younger) and Joe (4 years younger) are just as interesting as I am. Ben is currently a semi-professional football player with St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Joe is still living at home (haha), plugging away at a mechanical engineering degree at the University of Ottawa.

I went to Woodroffe Elementary School, D. Roy Kennedy Junior High, and Woodroffe High School in Ottawa. From there, I went straight into Electrical Engineering at local Carleton University in Fall 1996. I moved out of my parents place in 1998 and spent the next four wonderful years living in residence at Carleton.

I graduated with my B.Eng (Electrical Engineering with a focus on Electromagnetics) in 2000, slipped the Iron Ring over my finger, and signed back up for another two years to do a Masters degree. The tech bubble was almost ready to crash at this point, and in retrospect it was a good move to stay in school.

I did my Masters of Applied Science with Carleton and Nortel Networks, where I had been working on and off since they were called Bell Northern Research. My M.A.Sc. focused on electromagnetics again; my thesis was titled Mitigating the effects of cavity resonances in ceramic millimetre-wave packages. Exciting stuff.

I defended my thesis in January 2002, and was planning on slacking for a while. The economy still sucked, I had been slaving away for more than a year on my thesis, and I really just wanted to sleep in and hang out with friends for a few months.

No such luck.

In March, 2002, I packed everything I owned into a trailer and drove 4600km across the continent to Santa Rosa, California. I took an engineering job with Centellax, a small start-up. I'm still there, and I'm loving every minute of it.