I was born in Knoxville, TN and then moved down to Fort Lauderdale at the age 7. After high school I went in to the United States Coast Guard. After 5 years of honorable service to my country in the U.S Coast Guard, performing search and rescue in the Florida Keys to drug interdiction in the Florida Straits, I moved to Lakeland in 1991. Through the 22 years of being a small business owner, I was blessed to have formed…