My love for computers started when I first played with Atari 400 and Atari 800 computers in the local GEMCO store in the San Fernando Valley. If it wasn’t those two, it was a Commodore 64 at the local K-Mart. I finally convinced my parents to get me a computer, and they purchased a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, complete with a tape recorder for storing data. I then graduated to a Franklin ACE 1000 which was a clone of the Apple ][ computer. I perpetrated quite a few “hacks” on that Franklin and spent a lot of time surfing BBS systems, including the once-famous Port Royal. 

After high school, I joined the US Army, where I was given the opportunity to work with computers in the early days of the PC. These interactions drove me to attend Kansas State University to attempt a degree in Computer Science, which I did not complete. I moved back to the San Fernando Valley, where I grew up, and a friend of a friend took a chance on me.

I spent several years as a systems integrator helping organizations build their networks, troubleshoot their servers, and deploy more network cabling than I care to remember. I moved on to a Director of IT role at an advertising and pre-press organization, before landing at The Integer Group here in Dallas. I spent over nine years supporting the agency before being called up to the corporate level.

As the Endpoint Services Manager at Omnicom Group, I was responsible for designing, building, and deploying the Jamf Pro management platform to ultimately manage over 34,000 Apple endpoints throughout the myriad of agencies within the Omnicom Group umbrella. I spent four and a half years supporting the various agencies around the world and ensuring their Apple fleet was up-to-date and managed.

I then moved on to my dream job as a sales engineer at Jamf Software, where I get the privilege of helping organizations succeed with Apple. When not doing that, I spend time with my beautiful wife and two college-age daughters.