I attended Kirk Road Elementary School K-3 and then Lakeshore Elementary School 4-6 in a Delphi program for "gifted" kids.  It was a unique program where I had the same classmates for all classes for 3 years and essentially a way to single out the smart kids for the rest of the school to pick on.  Then it was off to Greece Athena Junior High School and then Greece Athena High School, all in the same building for 6 years.  I played violin for 12 years at the Eastman School of Music, a year of piano and way too much music theory than anyone could care to know and ended up with a Diploma in Violin and too many memorized songs taking up precious brain space.  Then I moved 2 hours away to Ithaca, NY where I attended Cornell University majoring in Computer Science with a concentration in Operations Research.  I really enjoyed my time there and could've done without the harsh winters, but have made many life-long friends from there. 

After graduation, I spent the summer road-tripping across the country and then to Taiwan on the "Love Boat" '94 to study the language and culture of my Chinese roots.  Then it was a week in Hawaii hanging out with my Grandma who used to live there, before coming back to face reality and the working world.

After my last summer of fun/non-responsibility finally came to a close, I moved down to the Washington, DC area where I've worked in the IT consulting world ever since.  At American Management Systems, I was in the Technology Solutions Group where I had a chance to work with many talented colleagues and was involved in several technologically challenging projects ranging in core business functionality from credit cards, to financial services to healthcare and to the insurance industry.  I have played several roles at AMS ranging from developer, architect, technical specialist, team lead, and development manager.

Working at AMS has given me the opportunity to travel quite a bit domestically and develop many of the hobbies I currently have. I love to travel, take photos and eat at different restaurants, oftentimes combining all of these activities together.  Projects have taken me all over the US for months at a time, usually for 4 days a week, to Delaware, Jacksonville, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, San Francisco, New Orleans, North Carolina and Wisconsin.  I've adapted well to travel and can sleep pretty much anywhere on demand and have racked up over a million frequent flyer miles.

I now work at Siebel Systems in their Professional Services group, consulting on client engagement implementations.  Siebel is the market leader in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software and was recently acquired by Oracle with the transaction expected to be finalized in early 2006.  I have not traveled for Siebel on any client engagements as I've been on a local ExxonMobil project very close to home for the past 2+ years.  It has been very convenient for my side "slum-lording" ventures in real estate.  I will however be getting a taste of my first International travel for work at the beginning of the year.