I was born and raised in Flowery Branch, GA, just next door to Sugar Hill. I've always lived and worked in this area, as have many generations of my family before me.

I have a degree in computer science and business administration from the University of North Georgia, and I've worked in a variety of roles in my life. Professionally, I've served multiple roles in the software business, including software engineer for both a Fortune 500 and startup company, software QA analyst for a company that made software for local planning departments, and software marketing specialist for a US federal contractor. While I was working my way through school, I worked as a daycare teacher, student liaison in a program for at-risk youth, insurance salesperson for hole-in-one contests at golf tournaments, and a laboratory technician in the bacteriology and virology departments of the Georgia Poultry Laboratory division of the Georgia Department of Agriculture.

I obtained a teaching license from the state of Georgia through a special program to recruit professionals from other fields to teach in hard-to-staff subjects and levels. I spent two years teaching middle school (algebra, technology).

My mother and father (a US Army combat veteran of the Vietnam War) have always followed politics and current affairs. I first became interested after picking up a copy of The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom in my local library when I was about 10 years old. Through that book, I learned a lot, including a true appreciation for what we have in the United States of America, how very possible it is for us to lose it, and the importance of standing up for what's right.

I now spend a significant portion of every day following politics and current events on the local, state, national, and world stages and finding ways to promote small government and individual rights. I've worked with the Libertarian Party of Georgia, the Georgia GOP, and the NRA (of which I am a Life Member). In April 2019, I began attending all of the public meetings in Sugar Hill, conducting an ongoing, in-depth audit of their activities from a citizen's perspective.

When I'm not working on something political, I enjoy spending time with my fiancé Tom and the rest of our friends and family, playing with our two rescue cats, talking and laughing with strangers and future friends around town, dealing blackjack at parties for a local events company, landscaping and gardening (you'll find me out in my yard on Whitehead Road a lot when the weather's nice), cooking, drinking massive amounts of coffee and iced tea, and reading about science and history.