I am a practicing pharmacist passing the Florida licensure in 1993. As a child the first nine years of my life, we lived in a poor neighborhood and later moved to the country. My father died when I was three and our mother was too busy with work, gambling, drinking and smoking. I started working from the age of six, selling peanuts at the nearby horse track. I was an above average student in high school but exceptional athlete, chess player, class captain and great at science. The eventual establishment of rules for living would become a guide throughout my existence, even today. The change started in the ninth grade after reading two books that were the property of our eldest brother. He had just returned home from college, he was a dropout and that would change my life. My mother refused to help with any college expense, so after high school, I worked at a number of jobs to save for the first year admission. I also worked while at St. John's University, from 1988 to 1993, College of Pharmacy in Queens, New York. I remain an above average student, always above a 3.00 GPA. knowledge was my focus not grades. I was a coordinator with the peer mentoring group, track team member, intramural basketball, President of the Pharmacy Leadership Society and the University's President Society Member. In 1994, I returned to my hometown to help establish better health service and provide social growth in poor communities. I started a basketball camp for boys between the ages of 7 and 16 years. I was involved in a number of social activities included: activist for health education, police reservist, high school careers committee, Pharmacy Council, political candidacy and entrepreneurship. I married in 1999 while in my early thirties and we had our first son Andrew in 2004.
