I am a San Francisco Bay Area native, growing up in San Mateo in the 1960s and 1970s. For many of those years I lived with my mom at the Hillsdale Garden Apartments next door to the Hillsdale Shopping Center, and spent my youth as a mall rat. I went to Serra High School at the same time as Barry Bonds, and got my B.S. in business from the College of Notre Dame. In my college years I sold stuffed killer whales and rented baby strollers during the summers at Marine World. I went on to work in accounting and IT for many years before my lifelong love for writing took hold and I began to develop my second career as a writer recently.
I live in Belmont with my wife and daughter and our Shih Tzu named Whimsy. I have worked in various positions in IT for the past thirty-five years, more than twenty-five of those with Wells Fargo in San Francisco. I enjoy cooking, binge-watching shows, video games, target shooting, science fiction, classic rock, my favorite podcasts on history and the supernatural, and travel. I am a lifelong Bay Area sports fan who bleeds orange and black and crimson and gold. My bucket list when I retire includes visiting every continent and driving by car through the lower forty-eight states and Alaska.
