Hello! My name is Brad and I love programming!
I currently work at Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute as their Full Stack .NET developer and IT guy.
I discovered my love of computers and programming in middle school by programming batch files to prank my friends. Once I entered high school, I began developing websites for fun and first learned HTML and CSS. When I was a sophomore in high school; I learned about Bitcoin and, bought some of the first USB ASIC miners on the market. I learned enough Linux to run the miners with a Raspberry Pi, and I mined Bitcoin for six months. I joined the Robotics club in my junior and senor years where I was first exposed to ROBOTC which is like C++. Once I graduated high school; I enrolled in The University of South Florida at Tampa, and began to take my resale business seriously. I flipped everything I could find (600+ distinct items) with a 100% customer satisfaction rate, and I'm still looking whenever I get a chance!
Toward the end of my time at USF, I needed to take an elective and I decided to take COP 4931 Advancements in Object Oriented Programming with one of the most difficult programming professors Dr. Roger Fang. I had taken three of his classes previously: CIS3433 Sys Integration & Architecture, COP 3515 Advanced Program Design (in C), CNT4104 + CNT4104L Computer Info Networks for IT + Lab. Advancements in OOP was on another level l; Dr. Fang said it was for graduate level students and he was not joking. That class was frustrating but it did introduce me to C# which I said at the time was (and still is) my favorite language. I even did a "language of your choice" term project for COP 4931 Applied Data and Information using C# to make an encryption and hash tool. Visual studio made development so easy it only took five hours which cemented my love for C#.
In my free time I love to be outdoors. My biggest passion is SCUBA diving having been certified for over 14 years. There is nothing short of floating like an astronaut that can compare to being in deep clear water. My favorite dive was on the wreck of the USNS Vandenberg in Key West, seeing the 500 foot ship slowly fade into view on descent was breathtaking. I also like fishing, backpacking, and longboarding.