Born and raised in New Jersey, I began life in E. Hanover, NJ and at age 3-1/2, my family moved to Farmingdale, NJ, where some of my family still resides. I went college at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. After graduation, I returned to New Jersey to work at what was then AT&T Bell Laboratories, while also obtaining a Masters from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.

From the time of the purchase of my first home in my lat...