I am an admitted multi-aholic: moviescore-aholic, volleyball-aholic and videogame-aholic. I've spent a good portion of my life collecting LPs and CDs, pounding down a ball and cursing out the designers of video games when I can't get past a certain point.

Music has been an important part of my life since before I can remember. My first movie score was the double-LP album of Star Wars by John Williams. I wore the album out and then bought it on CD (and then on CD again in a box set and then on CD again expanded, but I digress). At a young age my parents gave me an organ and after seeing my avid interest in playing it, they bought me a piano and paid for lessons.

I started playing my own music and even recorded some of it using a Casio and a Yamaha keyboard (one was the Left speaker and the other the right). My lifetime ambition is to become a film score composer. Instead of pursuing that initially, I instead double-majored in Management Information Systems and Accounting, a more practical combination.

Starting at age 16, I began working at Western Union, a 7-minute walk from my home. I continued to work there through the early years of college, but for 2-years I worked in tech support until cut during layoffs. After returning to Western Union as a customer service operator, I went management and was later certified as a Six Sigma Black belt (process improvement).

At a company picnic, 6 of us formed a band and played several rock songs for the entertainment of our fellow employees. This sparked in me a new interest in music. When Who Wants to be a Superhero began airing July 27, I thought the show was going to be another forgettable reality program (a genre that I usually despise). Instead, I found the people on the show to be absolutely incredible. Early on, Feedback stood out as my favorite and I was inspired by his dedication as a superhero and his speech on the final episode. I am currently taking online classes through Berklee School of Music and writing underscore for a Feedback fanfic audio drama. If Feedback can realize a dream as on-the-surface unbelievable as being a superhero, why can't I become a film score composer?