I grew up in Lynnwood, Washington and moved to California in 2003 to attend the University of California, Santa Barbara. After studying chemistry for a year, I switched majors and schools to study professional photography & digital media at the Brooks Institute.

In 2009 after graduating from college I began working as a web developer in Santa Barbara, CA. I started working on Joomla's content management system (CMS) and expanded into other frameworks and languages.

In December of 2013 I created a company called Yovigo with my incredibly talented developer friend Brandon Swift. We have two e-commerce products (Yovigo.com & PayWhirl.com) in development currently.