Many changes are happening at EastWave, and I felt it was important to put my new blog online first to let everyone know what is going on in my world and throughout all the entities that I own.

So let’s begin with an introduction to my life, and how I got to where I am today…

Throughout high school, all I wanted to be was a rock star.  I played in quite a few different bands in those days, which saw limited success.  In various bands throughout my life, I have played either guitar, bass or handled the lead vocals.  I can also play drums to a certain extent, but I wouldn’t consider myself a drummer.

My parents were determined that I needed to go to college, and of course I didn’t really think I needed a college education to play music so I wasn’t really sure what to do.  On the last day of summer break after my high school graduation in 1992, I went to Wilson Technical Community College to enroll in SOMETHING since my mother had given me the choice of getting a job or going to school.  I decided to take Automotive Technology since fast cars was another of my longtime passions.  This worked out pretty well since I had the chance to work on my 280ZX anytime I wanted and I even ended up with a full scholarship to the automotive program since my grades were so good.  Some may consider that a smart, educated rock n’ roller to be an anomaly in this world, but my whole life has been different from the normal life that 99% of people in this world live.

After graduating from the Automotive Technology program, I went on to take the college transfer program at WTCC and transferred to East Carolina University in Greenville, NC.  Once again I had a dilemma since it was the last day of registration and I still had not chosen a major, since I still didn’t have a clue of what I wanted to do other than play music.  I was looking at the programs and the Communications - Media Production program sounded interesting so I just chose that as my major with Business Administration as a minor.  Keep in mind, this was totally off the cuff without even investigating the details of the program.   Once classes started in my major, I realized that the Communications program was filled with scholarship football & basketball players.  What a lucky pick for a major!!!  I pretty much breezed through the college courses and ended up graduating from ECU in 1997.

The day I graduated from college was pretty special since my band at the time had our first show as well on that evening at a bar in Wilson, NC.   The band at the time didn’t last very long after that, but something I learned during that time would have a MAJOR impact on my future career, the skill of website design.

I learned website design through trial and error, starting with a blank canvas in an image program and just created what would become a website.  I have never read any books on computers, or even taken any computer classes in college.  Back when I was in college, the students didn’t even have a college email address and the Internet was in its early stages of development.

From those early beginnings, I went on to work for a little over a year at a printshop in which I learned the skill of sign design & vinyl lettering.  I left the printshop to work for a web hosting company in Greenville NC in which greatly increased my web development skills as I was the primary web designer for over 4 years.

In late 2003, I started creating my own company and network of websites that would later become my EastWave Media network.  One thing led to another and I currently own over 100 developed internet properties.

I will be posting about various topics in this blog so please keep checking back.  This post is just a brief overview of what led me to creating EastWave Media.   I will go into more detail on previous periods in my life in future posts.

I will also be giving tips on internet marketing, web design, computers & much more so any of you out there interested in following a similar path should definitely bookmark my blog as there will be a lot of useful knowledge given out here.

Being an entrepreneur is not easy, so I will definitely be blogging about the ups and downs and pitfalls along the way…  Hopefully, some of my stories will help some of you in your own ventures.