From the Chicago suburbs, grew up in Lombard and now live in Glen Ellyn (30 miles west of campus).

My background is in IT Orchestration and Operations. I had been an IT manager before previously becoming a professor in 2012. I came to the realization that cloud native development and deployment (DevOps) was the logic outcome of software deployment outcomes.

My first computing device was a Commodore 64 (1987).

It doesn't look like it now, but I played American Football in high school and junior college. I managed to register one tackle to my credit in college.