In the most southern tip of Ethiopia [ኢትዮጵያ ] I began to see change in my environment when construction began to create a pipeline to pump fresh water from the mineral rich local river of Tegona [ትጎና ]. It's on this river where my very young friends and I fished and played. It was a shocking change to see the machinery of construction and how the earth suddenly become so vulnerable to the combined efforts of man and machine. It was this time in my life where I began to realize the capability of engineering.
Until the age of Middle-School, I begin to play with toys and household items where I found it to be rewarding to brake-fix hardware. From toy's to cassette players. This fundamental skill aided my efforts to fix computers for the Ethiopian community within Portland, OR.
By the end of my high-school years, I realized my passion was focused more on software. I learned to code in script and c/c++ by the end of my high-school year. My Senior Project exemplifies my talent capacity: Screen Saver that displayed a shift-change of shapes.
Senior year of college at Oregon State University, I developed my first product: A word processor focused on my native language of Amharic [አማረኛ ]. It was a very successful product; at the time the Microsoft did NOT support the language and there was greater demand than for communicating in Amharic especially for diaspora's who had access to technology but have not yet mastered English.
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