About Me

I grew up in Groveport, Ohio and graduated Groveport Madison High School in 1988.

I attended Ohio State from 1988-1990 until I joined the US Navy in 1990 where I studied electronics and I left as an 2nd Class Petty Officer (E5). From 1994-1996 I attended Ohio State and earned my BS in Mathematics.

After school I worked for a variety of companies as a Software Engineer, CompuServe, Bank One, UUNET, MCI/WorldCom, Covansys/Saber. This year on October 6 I started my own company Preston Research LLC.

In 2003 I met my wife Emily on a trip to England. I flew to South Africa 6 weeks later to be married. In October of 2003, Emily joined me in Columbus where we have been ever since. In June of 2005 we got our dog, Castle Preston, and currently reside in the suburb of Grandview Heights.

I have a robot hobby and wrote my first book on the subject in 2005. It’s called
“The Definitive Guide to Building Java Robots“. I have currently started the club called, The Columbus Robotics Society.

In 2006 I helped co-author a book with Dion Hinchcliffe called “Real World Ajax“.