I grew up in Schaumburg, Illinois, which is in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. When I was seventeen years old my family moved from Illinois to Burlington, North Carolina. Moving threw off my plans for college, so I decided to join the Navy instead. I spent six years in the Navy as an Engineering Lab Technician. I was on board the USS George Washington for the last four years of my enlistment. I got married in November of 2019 and was honorably discharged in December of 2020. Since then I have been attending classes at Old Dominion to earn my Mechanical Engineering degree.