I grew in the Galveston Bay area, Texas, with my parents and four siblings, there were many astronaut families close and we met Neil Armstrong and many other Apollo families. There was no fence and we had a skate board half pipe and playscapes with kids from all over the neighborhood. At 12, I started working at local seafood restuarants; dishwashing, food prep or host and valet driver outside. Went to Clear Lake HS, played football and did the usual things and worked my final years at HS working at Texaco station.


Initially loathe to college, I attended Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas for 2-years, enjoyed some intramural sports and worked while living with either of my folks during the summers. After completion of some programming courses, worked as intern for 3-summers with Boeing Aerospace


I was turned down the first time, but got into the University of Texas and moved to Austin in 1985. I loved Austin imediately, home. In 1988, finished UT double in Finance and Management Information Systems


Began an 11-year journey with Computer Sciences that landed me in Paris, Tokyo, Toronto and a lot more places in between. I met my future wife, Dana, in December of 1998 at a happy hour at the Dallas Nightclub country & western bar in Austin


Reacting to an epiphany at lunch in 1999, myself, father and others founded the Space Story organization with the mission of "public outreach" and multi-media production


For Y2K, Dana & I celebrated with the largest crowd ever downtown Austin enjoying Lyle Lovett. We traveled to Hawaii, NYC and Vancouver before I proposed with her Dad's permission and in front of our families in 2000. Shortly after 911, we wed in a catholic ceremony in south Texas and went to Lord Howe Island, Sydney and Queens Town. We followed up in 2003 with a summer trip to Europe from England to Turkey and more in between, and on September 11, 2003 flew home on an empty plane


We were blessed with Eva in 2004, and Warren in 2006 and have made our first family trip to Orlando in 2009 visiting Dad & family, going to Disney, and watching an Endeavor launch


Today, I share my time with family, a yellow labrador named "Wilbur", remodeling and managing investment property and over-see Space Story operations


Thank you