Christopher John Mitchell
I was born in Dallas Texas in 1975. I'm a military brat, the son of a career Naval officer. As a result, I lived in numerous places before college.. In order: Dallas, Idaho Falls, Virginia Beach, San Pedro, San Diego, Newport Rhode Island, back to Virginia Beach, off to Japan then back to Virginia Beach again. Moving around was challenging, but gave me the opportunity to see a lot of things and meet a lot of people I otherwise would not have... I like to think that it gave me a better perspective than I would have had.

For college, I attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. It is better known as its now-official name: Virginia Tech. Most people know of us for our football team that reached nationwide attention due to the performance of Michael Vick (who has since disgraced himself.. thanks guy!). Like most VT alumni, I am a bit of a fanatic when it comes to our football program. People have often said that they "put something in the water down there" as the football insanity seems to infect most everyone who goes there. As a result, from September to January my Saturdays are largely booked :). College was fun and at times quite... 'interesting'. I started off a Computer Science major but found that I became disenchanted with the focus of the program. Virginia Tech's CS program produces people who are well qualified to develop the type of really low-level systems that are extremely important to society and BORE ME TO TEARS. Instead, I switched into the MIS program where you get to instead apply programming to solving business problems and the like.