Patrick is a 2020 Ph.D. graduate from the UNLV Department of Computer Science. During his six years at UNLV he worked as a graduate assistant in Andreas Stefik’s Software Development and Media Lab. His research work included developing accessible software libraries for the blind and visually impaired community, running human subjects trials on how people write software (particularly for high performance parallel computing) and working on a National Science Foundation funded grant called Innovators Developing Accessible Tools in Astronomy. At UNLV he was highly engaged as a Graduate Rebel Ambassador and GPSA leader. Aside from his degree at UNLV, Patrick has a strong financial background with an MBA from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. Patrick currently lives in Scottsdale, AZ and is merging his technology and finance interests working in the healthcare industry.