Background
I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to a multicultural family. My father immigrated to the United
States from Egypt, while my mother comes from Chicago; her family immigrated to the U.S. generations ago
from Norway & Germany. I got my first taste of Egypt when I was 6. We stayed there for
a month or so enroute to Kuwait, where my father had landed a job with Alghanim. It was his
hope that we would connect with our Middle Eastern heritage. Oddly enough, Kuwait spurned
my passion for reading fantasy and science fiction.
After eight years, we relocated
to Cairo, Egypt, where I started high school at Cairo American College in Maadi. I then
finished high school at the American International School (a.k.a., ASM) in Portals Nous, Mallorca,
Spain. Then it was back to the U.S.A., where I went to UNCG and studied literature, psychology,
physics, mathematics and computer science as I leaped from subject to subject trying to navigate
the area in which I should specialize. I settled, on computer science, but got my degree in
Mathematics to jump into the job market.
My resume traces my career path from there.
Egypt
It was on a trip back to Egypt to visit my grandmother, that I fell in love with the woman
who was to become my wife. Today, I am trying to return to Egypt, as we would like to raise
our family there.
There is a tremondous potential in Egypt and I would very much like to become part of
a contributing force for positive change there.