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I've been immersed in technology since 1990, and I wasn't just a kid playing video games. While my mom worked as an IT help desk manager, I was reading the computer books she'd bring home, building my own computers, editing batch files, and writing small programs in BASIC by the time I was 13.

As a high school senior in 1998, armed with top industry certifications like MCSE and CNA, along with two years of real-world IT experience, I launched an IT consulting firm that grew to serve hundreds of clients before being acquired in 2010.

Today, I'm the Founder and CEO of Municibid (founded 2006), a government surplus auction platform serving 7,000+ government clients. I'm also building Surplus.com and Surplus.ai, two platforms transforming how governments and businesses handle surplus assets online.

With over 30 years of experience in technology and entrepreneurship, I share my thoughts and opinions on how AI is shaping our world today and in the years ahead.