Born and raised in Chicago, I am a United States Navy veteran with over twenty years' experience in cryptography and information technology. I currently work in public service for the federal government in the cyber and IT field. I have been writing my entire life. I write romantic-suspense novels and children's books where I am the author and the illustrator. I'm beginning my first screenplay which is a horror film. I live in the DC suburban area with my two mini-schnauzers Chai and Mocha.