I am from  New York and grew up on Long Island.  I graduated from Plainview JFK in Plainview New York.

I worked at the Old Bethpage Village Restoration during summers while I was in undergraduate at GWU.

After Graduation from GWU I was in a post graduate program at the Elliot School For Internantional Affairs (GWU) studying Security Policy Studies.  This essentially was a combination of History, Political Science and Math as applied to International Affairs in the US-Soviet Cold War. 

In 1988 I joined the Army National Guard as an enlisted infantryman.  I was trained in Mortars and TOW missiles.  I served in various units until I was discharged in 2000.  My last unit was Troop C 2-107th Cav in Sandusky OH.  I was the Mortar section seargent at the time.

Before I could finish the degree I was hired by the Department of the Navy as a Logistics Management Specialist with Naval Sea Systems Command.  As part of my employment I worked in Washington DC, Bremerton Washington and Crane Indiana. 

I went to Law School in Clevland Ohio where I met my wife and have been here ever since.