Chelsea currently resides in Wilmington, Ohio. In her day life, she is the owner of 3 businesses: a Comic Book and Game Shop, a computer workshop, and an ISP. In her nightlife, she is a fiery Bright Wizard in the new game from EA/Mythic, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
CompTIA A+
CompTIA Network+
AS Network Administration - Windows
Its hard to differentiate between "Bio" and "Experience" because it really is Chelsea's life experiences that have enabled her to do what she does now. Her mother put on "Hooked on Phonics" at age 3 and by age 4 she was reading and writing. At age 9 she won first place in a writing contest put on by the local paper. From age 6 on she constantly had a book in hand, and in Middle school she started writing fiction. Her 7th grade teachers told her she completed her writing assignments at the level of a college student. She has always received the highest marks on essays, summaries, and other writing assignments and her lowest grades have always been in English (go figure). Something about the importance of memorizing author styles blah blah blah Pronoun Adverb blah blah blah. So basicly from a very early age she knew she was simply cut out to be a writer. (She just never knew there was a job for such a thing!)
Around age 7 her family got their first computer and she has been fascinated by them ever since. Chelsea has been selling her technical skills out since the ripe age of 16, taking in-home service calls as soon as she got her license. Usually these revolved around simple PC repairs, upgrades, installations, and home network setup.
She completed all four years of high school in three, simultaneously combining her Junior and Senior courses with 8 college credits per semester in English, Spanish, American Sign Language, and most importantly, Linux. Upon graduating high school she developed an insatiable interest in Linux and attended a local community college as well as UC Berkeley's night courses. Incedently she never completed a college course, usually getting part-way through and then deciding reading the book and experimenting were the better ways to learn. (and she was right!).
Shortly before reaching age 18 she enrolled in a ACICS acredited local college in its Network Administration for Linux Associates Degree Program. Since for the entire 18 months she attended they never filled the courses, the college forced her into getting her "degree" in Windows Administration. To this day she insists she was cheated out of $20,000 and thinks no one should waste their money on a likewise acredited "school".
Immediately upon finishing "school" she was hired as a Network Administrator at a local school district that utilized two Windows 2003 servers, one NT4 Server, and ~150 decrepit workstations. They also gaver her a grand $0.00 in budget to enhance the system and she was left to cloning hard drives and showing teachers how to check their email for 3 months solid. Oh, and don't forget, being forced to let 35 screaming 7 year olds play with her carefully tuned machines. Disenchanted with her career prospects at such a place, she resigned her position to a classmate that had much more patience with such nonsense. She hopes his experience was not as horrendous as hers.
Chelsea luxuriated in unemployment for awhile longer, then decided that California was getting stale. She packed up her things and started driving across the country to see what she could find. She lived briefly in Tennessee and happened to be randomy spammed by a certain MD Weems on her myspace. This kicked off a whole new chapter in her life, as she began her writing "career" with zownder.com. She also met her future husband through zownder, whom she married Dec. 5th, 2007.
The stresses and challenges of life started to necessitate a "real job" and Chelsea began working as a Dell Computers subcontracted technician in the Cincinnati area. Through this job she pretty much became a master of everything that happens inside a laptop, and can frequently be seen in her workshop elbow-deep in a culprit machine. Unfortunately after a few months of that job gas prices spiked to such an extent that she actually started LOSING money working.
It was then that she and her husband decided that they should open their own business. A combination of a game store and comic shop that he is the ruler of, and a Computer Workshop the she is queen of. Recently Chelsea also bought-out a local ISP for dial-up service (hey, she lives in the boonies) as well as became a partner with Clearwire ISP selling wireless broadband. Around that same time she was invited to write for Bright Hub and can now, finally, (barely) pay her bills!