Actually, my name is William
Brian Williams...
please... don't even ask me what my parents were thinking!
I was born in October, 1973 in the town of
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where I
have lived the majority of my life. My father has also lived here all of his
life. In fact our family's roots go all the way back to around 1835 when the
land that he and my mom now own and used to live on was settled by my
great-great-great-grandparents. My mom's father was from Germany, and her
mother was a native to the Kentucky area as well. But my ancestry is
German, Irish, and English with a tiny little bit of Cherokee thrown in for
good measure.
I
was always the quiet, shy kid in school. You know, the little guy whose IQ
was a higher number than his body weight. Okay, so I was a nerd--I enjoyed
it, get over it. The only sport I was really into in high school, if you
could call it a "sport", was the Academic Team (also known as Quiz Bowl).
It's kind of like Trivial Pursuit, or Jeopardy, with math problems thrown in
the question lot. Anyhow, I was good, and was MIP my sophomore year,
followed by MVP my senior year. I was also in several clubs like the the
National Honor Society, and Beta Club, among others. I was also an "All
American Scholar," a Governor's Scholar, made "Who's Who Among American High
School Students," and ended up graduating Salutatorian.
I went to Hopkinsville Community College from 1991 to 1993, and while
there also played on their Academic Team and was inducted into Phi Theta
Kappa, the junior-college version of the honor fraternity Phi Beta Kappa.
I graduated in December of 1997 from
Murray State University
where I got my B.S. in Computer Science. While there, I was a member of
Sigma Tau Gamma
Fraternity. I had the awesome experience of helping our fledgling
colony become the Epsilon Eta
Chapter. For some reason I was given the nickname "Elmo" by my
fraternity brothers, which I have not been able to shake over the years.
I am a self-employed Network Engineer / Graphic Designer
/ Computer Programmer who in addition to solo projects is also working on
various contract IT projects for the following companies:
Also, be sure to check out all of the cool programs I
wrote that you can download for free from my
software section.
And last but certainly not least, here is my
resume if anyone is interested.
