Born and raised in Raleigh, NC and now resident in Hilton Head, SC. Interested in art, tennis, golf, table tennis and technology. Enjoys culture, history and debate. Grew up wanting to work at IBM and got that chance in 2000. Constantly learning new technologies to stay sharp in the IT industry. Project Founder and Project Architect of LinuxDNA, a high performance Linux kernel source that can be compiled with the Intel ICC compiler.