Born and raised in Illinois, Andrew studied Philosophy at Carleton College in Minnesota, which naturally led to a job in fixed income derivatives on Wall Street.  While there, Andrew toiled tirelessly alongside other like-minded idealists to lower the cost of capital for society.  He retired from finance after two years, and spent four quiet retirement years defending the great state of Illinois in the Army National Guard.  He decided to come out of retirement in order to earn a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, then an MS in Computer Science from Northwestern University.  Andrew is now a Software and Data Engineer at PhenixP2P in historic Chicago, Illinois.