Here's some stuff about me that you won't find on the About Us page:

I graduated from Gettysburg College in 1990 with a degree in Political Science.  I then parlayed that into a fun and rewarding career waiting tables and bartending.  Mom was so proud that all that money didn't go to waste!  I really enjoyed the restaurant world though and became a manager for a well known chain of restaurants.  I left there to go to another well known chain of restaurants but the fire was dying.  I was getting tired of the late nights and early mornings and almost 10 years of being somewhat sleep deprived caught up with me. 

In 1999 I lost my first wife to cervical cancer.  It became a good time to take stock of my life and where I was going and what I wanted to do going forward.  My friend and former roommater had moved to Raleigh a few years before and was working for a practice management software company.  He helped me get my foot in the door and my experience with customer service and my abilitiy to communicate was enough to convince them to hire me to a help desk position.  I really felt more at home in the technology world.  Even in my last jobs I had alwasy gravitated towards that part of my work that was IT related.  While I enjoyed talking to the clients and resolving problems, I was looking for something a little more challenging.  So, I switched departments there and was able to find something that really grabbed me - using reporting software to pull information from the database.  Sounds thrilling, huh?  Well, I liked it, so there :-p

In 2004, the opportunity to take on a leading IT role with a local medical practice enticed me to move on.  That lasted for about 9 months - the company got bought out by a bigger company that already had an IT company doing all their work.  Fortunately, they hired me on and taught me so much.  I'll always be grateful for that opportunity for it has given me the experience and knowledge to allow me to help start B&W.

Julie and I are proud of the business we're building - we both had good jobs with good salaries but wanted something more.  We want to be able to help others achieve success.  We both realize that if we can help medical practices run more efficient, profitable businesses, they can spend less time worrying about their bottom line and more time taking care of their patients. 

So, outside of work what am I like?  Well, I like to think of myself as the non-geek IT geek.  I don't spend all of my time in front of a computer screen, but love technology just the same and I'm constantly amazed and in awe of what humans can do.  I'd rather watch sports than play Doom.  I'd rather play golf on a real golf course than with a Wii.  I can talk about politics as much as the pros/cons of Windows Vista. 

That's enough of my ramblings for now....gotta go show Julie that you only need 1 remote to watch tv.