In a not too distant past, a young man sat in a small grey cubical high in a glass tower and looked over the documents of a software development project that took a hundred pages to say what could have been stated in a hundred words. He mused that his friends only thought that this work environment existed only in the comics. It was then that he decided that he wanted...no...had to get out. Life was far too short to live it in a maze like a rat. He wanted to do something creative, something fun. He had been involved with web sites as a hobby for years, did desktop publishing for various clubs and jobs and made a living working on user interface design, so that was something to build on. So, one day, not long after that day, the young man left his job, went back to school to hone his skills and started his own business.

Lance is a former Deliotte & Touche technology consultant. He serves as a Medical Service Corps Officer in the United States Air Force Reserves at the 910th Medical Squadron in Youngstown, Ohio and works on software development project for the Air Force Reserve Command. In 2001, he was one of approximately 50 junior officers selected from the United States to attend the International Junior Officer Leadership Symposium held in Munich Germany.