• Grant Winner at Computer Science Fair http://www.cpcug.org/
  • Capital PC User Group, Inc.
  • 2+ years end of High School, begining of attendance at UMCP

• Intramural Hockey
  • Former participant
  • 1 semester, 3 times weekly
• Finished a half marathon (13 miles) on my birthday
  • No special preparation was done, I had not attempted anything close to it in the past
  • I was running 2-4 miles, a few times a week

• UMBC Full-Time Exempt employee for 3.5+ years
  • IT Specialist in the UMBC Graduate School
  • Various inputs into campus community, graduate programs, business processes, policies, websites, newsletters, etc
  • 3.5 years, 40+ hrs per week while a part time graduate student at UMBC

• UMBC Part-Time student IT employee for 1 year
  • IT work for the campus architect
  • 1 year while a full-time undergraduate student at UMBC

• Departmental IT Group, Community web site
  • Co-creator and leader of campus-wide group aimed at enhancing the ability and communication of IT staff
  • Gained audience of over 50 Full Time IT Employees across our institution

• Information Systems COM of UMBC http://sta.umbc.edu/orgs/is/
  • Former participant

• Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts of America http://www.scouting.org/
  • Eagle Scout; Highest rank in BSA organization

• Presenter at College-web-technology User Conference, http://corp.collegenet.com
  • Expert presenter to targeted users; Presented IT Systems Integration techniques
  • Company running the event paid expenses to present 2nd time around, I guess they liked me!

Being a leader means that you carry and live an unsaid creed. That creed, whatever it may be, is spread. A leader must be constantly aware to spread the thoughts and actions that he would want to supplant into his / her ‘ideal world’. This ‘ideal world’ can be painted to mean drastically different pictures, so I explain a few of my visions below.

Lately, one of my main ideals has been truth. I think to live a fulfilled life, one has to live a truthful life to yourself and others. Internal and external truth. One must come to terms with your own weaknesses and faults, in order to responsibly shape what is around you.

Trustworthiness. This is the Boy Scout Oath’s first quality. As an Eagle Scout, I relate to this by observing that I distanced myself from this and truth, but am beginning to find it once again. It was drilled into me as a child, and it has surfaced again and will be with me for as long as I can foresee.

I think that if I can influence others to be more truthful, open, and transparent, no matter how painful the subject may be, that it will dramatically improve their own life’s along with the people in their life.