User:Sgraham481

I grew up in the Boston suburbs until I was 9 when my father became a JAG Officer in the Navy. That took us to Mississippi and Washington state. We moved a lot as a family which meant it was hard as a kid to make roots anywhere. We finally settled in Amesbury, MA where I spent my junior and high school years. I was accepted into the University of Michigan Art School after high school and attended from 93-97 graduating with a BFA. Soon after, I started working for HMRL, a community outreach software development department in the U of M medical school's cancer center. We developed touch screen kiosks of interactive software teaching underpriviledged Michigan communities about various medical situations and how to be more informed patients. After a few years there, I moved to Boston to work for Leadingside software just before their .com demise. But that lead me to a position in Los Angeles as a senior interactive software developer for Raytheon corporation where I've been for 11 years.

During my time at HMRL, I met and fell in love with Sara Schoenbaechler, an aerospace engineering student at U of M. This beautiful, intelligent woman agreed to follow me to L.A., also securing a position at Raytheon Corp as a satellite navigator. A few years after we move to L.A., we got married, bought a house and had our first of three children, Emily. Sara always surprises me. Shy and reserved at times, she proves you can never tell a book by it's cover, no matter how gorgeous it might be.

In February of 2006, we sold the house and made a daring move to live on my family's horse farm in Amesbury, MA. While challenging and often requiring the recasting of familial roles, we have found the arrangement to be better than we thought and have decided to stay. While here, we have had two more children, Annabel Rose and Ryan Nickerson. Sara, full of determination, had two v-backs, since she was forced into a c-section with Emily. Just more proof of her strength.

I still work for Raytheon corp. from home remotely to Pasadena, CA as their Senior Interactive Software developer. I also found time to get a degree in Character Animation, and am looking for ways to apply that. Also, I have begun to raise chickens, currently housing 26 in a coop behind the house and we are preparing to begin development of a triangle parcel of land on the property to grow wine grapes.