I began life as a sperm and egg. Fertilization occurred. Then there was a whole lot of stuff, I went to school, became a production engineer and then a production manager. I got sick of manufacturing and began a software engineering degree - after all, programming is in my blood, I was virtually born with a keyboard in my hands. So now I'm doing that thing, and working full time as an information analyst at a large utility company, trying to predict when failures are going to occur, so we can understand our risk exposure.