Born in the outskirts of suburbia known as Westchester, New York, I was burdened with two great curses upon birth. The first being an irrational love for the New York Mets despite their lackluster performance while I was growing up (excluding the God known as Mike Piazza, of course) and the second being an unquenchable desire for Chipotle.
Nevertheless, I met these deficiencies with great perseverance, striving to cheer the Mets (and, somewhat profoundly, myself) onto victory and consuming as many cylindrical, rice and bean filled foodstuffs as possible. Some say the the unobtainable dream of a post-season victory over the Cubs pushed me to insanity while others insist all the burritos made me delirious. Personally, I like to believe that the perfect combination of doubt and desire made me the awesome individual pictured above.
I solidified my love for computers sometime between the dark ages and the cootie era (also known as elementary school) when my mom brought home a shiny new Mac Powerbook G3 and told me to “have at it.” Several years later, my reign as an all-powerful 5th grader was toppled and I found myself as a lowly 6th grader drifting through the halls of a much more daunting universe some call middle school. It was during these years I first set my sights on programming, though somewhat against my will. The cafeteria lunches provided no sustenance in the form of my precious burritos and the endless sea of Yankees fans drove me into isolation in the computer lab. Thankfully, I was able to make it out alive and I followed the yellow brick road toward high school, which proved to be much more relenting.
Fast-forwarding to more recent times, I graduated from Lehigh University in good ol’ Sketchlehem (formerly Bethlehem), Pennsylvania with a degree in Computer Science. These days, I enjoy the finer things in life such as a nice cup of iced coffee, the perfect game of golf, a great pump in the ironclad heaven known as NYSC, and most of all, a hearty burrito from my neighborhood Chipotle.
If you’d like to discuss my affinity for Chipotle (or anything else), feel free to contact me.