The Short Version: Andrew is a graduate of Florida State University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in religion. He works part-time for the Florida Department of Elder Affairs as a database specialist. He also works part-time as a campus minister with the FSU Navigators.
Andrew has been blogging since 2004 and making websites since he was twelve years old. He has a presence at most every social networking website, including Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Last.fm, Digg, VIRB, iminlikewithyou, Xanga, Twitter and Pownce.
The Long Version: Andrew attended FSU from 2002 to 2006. He lived on-campus all four years in four different dorms and considers the campus to be more of a home than anywhere else he has ever lived. He came to school as a communications major, but after taking two religion classes in his second semester he decided to make a change. At times he has regretted not having double majored, especially when trying to get a new job.
Since his first week in Tallahassee Andrew has been involved with the Navigators campus ministry at FSU. The Navs are committed to building relationships, sharing the love of Christ, knowing the Word of God backward and forward, and one-on-one mentoring. While he was a student Andrew led Bible studies, served as student president and led the worship team. He has participated in two summer training programs, one in Miami and one in Colorado Springs.
After graduating Andrew considered joining EDGE Corps, but instead decided to join the workforce. He stayed in Tallahassee to continue his involvement with the Navigators as an alumni volunteer. His first job as a college graduate has been with the Department of Elder Affairs where he spends forty hours a week as a database specialist. Not glamorous work, but it paid the bills. Now Andrew splits his time between his job with the DOEA and as a campus minister with the FSU Navigators. To learn more about that click here.
Andrew grew up in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and lived there until he was sixteen. Before the start of his junior year of high school he and his family moved to Marlborough, Connecticut. He graduated from RHAM High School in 2002.
When he’s not blogging, Andrew can be found reading, playing the piano or singing along to one of his iTunes playlists. He is a big fan of all Miami-based professional sports team, especially the Marlins. His collegiate allegiance should be obvious. He’s not crazy about TV, but he is quite fond of Scrubs, 24, Law & Order: SVU and The Colbert Report.
As for future aspirations, Andrew would like to write non-fiction books for a living. He doesn’t know exactly what that would look like, but he knows it won’t be in a cubicle. He also has an interest in public speaking and teaching. The best case scenario would probably be to publish a lot of books, become immensely popular and therefore be in high demand for speaking and teaching engagements. The other thought is to become a college professor and split time between teaching and writing. His first goal is to get anything published.
Andrew has been making websites since he was twelve years old and connecting to the Internet using AOL 3.0. Creating this site was the first time he’d ever used Wordpress, having used Xanga for his first blog. If you are a fellow webmaster or Wordpress junkie and want to know what he used to make this site, click here for more information.
