I was born on the island of Kodiak in Alaska. My father is a commercial fisherman, boat builder, inventor, and entrepreneur. My family moved to the city of Sequim in the state of Washington when our house in Kodiak burned down (I was 6). Most of my summers were spent working on a fishing boat in Alaska. After high school (graduated 1989) I served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the the Philippines Davao mission, where I spent two years on the island of Mindanao speaking Visayan. After that I attended Brigham Young University in Utah. I married Tressa Stapley on December 18, 1993. Our son Gavin was born in March of 1995. I graduated in August 1997 with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Psychology and Physics (well, almost Physics). While there, I worked as a research assistant in the Performance Evaluation Laboratory of the Computer Science department. After college, I spent a year and a half working for TBRS Technology, on my Dad's fish filleting machine invention. Our daughter Brinn was born March of 1999, and shortly afterward we moved to Arizona, where I worked as a software engineer for Conceptual Systems and Software. Tayla was born March of 2001. After about three years, we moved back to Sequim to help my Dad out with his new company, AlaskaCatch. Then I got work with a startup company in Tucson, Arizona, called DMetrix where I worked as a software engineer. Our son Kade was born January of 2003. I then accepted an offer to work at the JITC doing software development for two years. In July 2005 I left the JITC to work for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Salt Lake City, doing software development for their new family history and genealogy programs. We now live in South Jordan, Utah. Our newest daughter, Maylee , was born in March of 2009.
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