I grew up in a small town called Sterling in Northwestern Illinois. After I graduated from Southern Illinois University, I received a scholarship to study in Germany, where I lived for seven years. When I moved back to the United States in 2001, I stayed in New England for five years and then moved to Las Vegas in 2006. I ended up leaving Las Vegas in 2012 to work in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento for CORT Business Services and moved back to Las Vegas in 2022.
My wife, Ing, and I have been married since 2009 and we have a son, Isiah (13) and a daughter Channing (11). Despite the extreme heat during the Las Vegas summers, we love living here because of the many friends we have and there is always something to do.