About

I’m an 18 year old entrepreneur, born and raised in Texas. I have been homeschooled the majority of my life up til my freshmen year of highschool where I attended a local public school for literally one semester, then resumed my home school studies.

Being home schooled gave me the advantage of doing what I loved to do, code. My dad is an engineer at Lockheed Martin and so as I was growing up I was exposed to a lot of technology. Computers especially. My dad had a “I can fix everything” way about him, not necessarily because he was cocky, but more preferrably because he actually could fix anything. He always liked to know how things worked, and explained things to me pretty early on as easily as he knew how, and I still use most of what he taught me today when I explain things about technology to people.

I picked up interest and didn’t slow down. I began fixing computers for friends, building websites, and building my own computers. I got into gaming pretty heavily thanks to an internet cafe in my city called Temp-Net and they would have weekly LAN parties every friday (A LAN party stands for Local Area Network party. People bring their computers and play against each other locally, like an Xbox, just more of them), and we knew the people that owned Temp-Net so I was allowed to go on weekends, and stay there til 6 am, I was 13.

I began auditing courses at a local college when I was 14 years old. I audited Visual Basic mainly because my mom wasn’t exactly sure what to do with me, but she knew programming anything would interest me, and it did. I took the course like the majority of the rest of the students with the exception of being the top of my class amongst adults, no I’m not a prodigy, I was just in love with what I was learning.

After auditing that course it was only a matter of time before I got into programming languages for good. I wanted to do things with websites and programming because I could show my friends, I could share with my friends, and the like. Temp-Net closed so I started hosting LAN parties at my house. The LAN parties were originally about 3-5 people.  After a couple of these I had about 10-20 friends wanting to come over, but I couldn’t fit them. I was attending a church in my city that I had been going to since I was in 2nd grade. I was about 15 at that time so I was in my church’s youth group. I asked my youth pastor if it was possible to have a LAN party. He said yes, we ended up having a LAN party that later turned into a semi-monthly event now called bawm-LAN. It grew to about 150 gamers per event, then we had to scale it down.

During the course of bawm-LAN I wanted to write several online applications, a dynamic website for the LAN being one of them. With a userbase, message board, content management, all of these things. I didn’t even know what they were called at the time, I just knew I wanted them. I tried to find a way to make these things because I knew plenty of Visual Basic, but web languages were like a whole new world to me, and I was addicted. I discovered PHP (don’t hate.) which is a server-side scripting language that allows you to generate web pages dynamically using a database, or other sources of data. I quickly learned about databases, and linux, and a huge array of other things.

Since learning PHP, and MySQL, and Javascript, and C++, and C#, and Python, and … you get the drift. I began to realize that my sort of obsession/hobby could be my career, and or business. I started to have all kinds of crazy ideas for websites, and cool ones at that. I began asking friends and family if they’d use it, thought it was cool, and to my surprise about everyone I asked was impressed and enjoyed the ideas. I began to create some of my ideas just for the fun of it.

I started to write down my ideas and practiced my programming skills, and learned, read, and everything like that. I decided to take myself seriously, and what I did seriously. I began to plan for my future and my entreprenurial ambitions. I now have worked on over 10 projects involving PHP, and MySQL and have since done contract work out of New York, been a systems administrator, a network administrator, a senior software architect, and many other things in between those two short years. I am now on my last leg of preparation, or so I see it that way.

I took down all the ideas I could conjur up that are worth entertaining, and I realized that it was time to set a goal, and stop piling up these ideas. It’s time to start producing them.

I set the goal for myself, to become a millionaire. My goal is to become a millionaire by the time I’m 21. This idea, was the idea I needed in order to encompass a way for me to talk about all of my ideas, and ventures.

Don’t ask me what I’m going to do if I don’t become a millionaire by the time I’m 21, because I’m not buying millionaireby25, or millionaireby30. I set the goal, I’ll meet it.