A brief overview of who I am and what I do:

"Ladies and gentleman, if I say I'm a dot-com man, you will agree"

Entrepreneur is such a widely used word these days; it even means different things to different people. I think it's someone who has a business mind and wants to run a few businesses and thinks in an innovative business manor. I know people who think if you work for yourself mowing people's lawns you are an entrepreneur. So when people ask me what I do, what I work with, it's hard for me to say, when I say web technology, people always think I am building websites for people, when really this isn't the case. It's my desire to build websites for myself, that other people use, thus I have come to call myself a dot-com guy. Yes, it sounds cheesy and in many ways it is, but there's simply no better way to sum it up in the short.

Let me tell you how things ended have come to be. I started making websites and programming 10 years ago, for the very first time I touched a computer it was magic. Being a true autodidact, I wanted to know everything and did as much as I could to learn about everything. In 2003 I had a very lucky turn of events, where I met up with a company selling sporting goods from a store front; they wanted to sell them online. We started with tennis, in tennis the money is in the rackets of course. In 5 months time from our first efforts on eBay, we were the #1 tennis racket retailer in the entire world.[read more] Me and one of the sons of the tennis racket business realized that our methods wear worth far more than the tennis racket business it's self, we started a software company and named it 'Powered By One Inc.' It was the American dream, overnight success, sadly it wouldn't last long. Nothing could stop us, just like nothing could stop Elvis Presley or Muhammad Ali, that is except the big bad war machine. I was not drafted, I had been a reservist since 2001, so there was no way out. After being gone for two years, one and a half years in Baghdad, Iraq, everything had changed, the technology, the tennis racket business. TRPros.com was forced to go with different technologies because Powered By One Inc. was fueled directly by my intellectual property. I tried to revive the company, but there was no founds and all work would have to be started over, the technology, as well as my knowledge was dated. I had been gone for 2 years and was not recovered from the war; I was in no shape to accomplish this feat.

Sadly I had little to nothing to show for my experiences, with the company gone and having never worked for someone else, I was forced to take lower IT job. Fortunately I have an amazing unstoppable drive and I was destine to succeed. I took a position as an Assistant IT Manager, with only an IT Manager over me as head of the IT department. When I started, the IT department only had 2 people and the company was only 50 strong. (To be continued.)