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I grew up in Saudi Arabia and I have lived on both coasts of the United States. I am honest to a fault, ambitious, motivated and creative.

My family is always my first priority and is my source of inspiration, motivation and happiness.

I thrive on activities such as SCUBA diving, skiing, paragliding, tough 5am workouts and we enjoy traveling around the world. I really like video games but, unfortunately, rarely get a chance to play them.

I also love owning and operating a progressive Web Design Studio.

In 1995, after graduating from Washington State University, I was starting my career as a Civil Engineer. Early on, I found I really liked working with CAD systems and networks and it became quickly obvious to my supervisor that I enjoyed programming these systems rather more than I liked doing the more traditional Civil Engineering design work.

Also at that time, the Internet was beginning to rapidly change and I found myself leaving my job only to rush home and engross myself in learning how to create and then publish web pages. Browsers such as Mosaic and Netscape, eventually followed by Internet Explorer, were allowing for graphic images, photos, more varieties in colors, backgrounds, fonts and layouts. As is today, there was never a time one could not sit down and figure out how to do something new and even something that had never been done. I was hooked.

I eventually built the engineering firm's first website and soon after left my job to return to school at Western Washington University to study Computer Science with ambitions of entering a new career as a web developer.

After attending school for a couple of years, I was recruited by a local company named BuyerTouch. We worked literally 19 hours a day, often times never leaving the office during daylight hours. It was the proverbial trial by fire. I eventually became the C.T.O. This position was arguably one of the best experiences for my career and yet already the "writing was on the wall" for BuyerTouch and in 1999 decided to resign to start a new design firm, Mindfly, Inc. with a long time friend Gary Pickering.

Gary and I started Mindfly with less than $3,000. We initially had a single computer and a handful of customers that we previously serviced through a very small (after hours) freelance company we called Millennium Media, Inc. By 2001, we had two employees and thanks to our customers we had started becoming profitable providing web development and shared hosting services to local businesses.

In 2006, Gary and I decided to split Mindfly's services into two separate companies. Mindfly was to focus solely on Web Design and Web Development whilst Gary created a new company Whatcom Web LLC to concentrate on the shared hosting services.

This decision was a major milestone for myself and Mindfly, Inc. My new partner, John Raasch, and I decided to narrow the focus and go back to the original vision of the company and focus on the Web. We literally risked everything as we transitioned to only releasing websites that adhered to Web Standards and that validated. We came to understand that our staff is our biggest and by far the most valuable asset and we work very hard at maintaining an environment that nurtures a team dynamic and facilitates creativity. As a result, Mindfly Web Studio has began to blossom and is without question my greatest career accomplishment.