At 9 months of age we moved from the Bay area to Bellevue, Washington. We lived there from 1984 until 1999. Evan attended Cherry crest elementary school , middle school, and one year of high school in Bellevue. His early love was computers and he was very skilled on them at a young age. His best friend, Cameron & he were kid game testers at Microsoft, as well as other gamer start-up businesses. He taught himself to program and created his own levels in his favorite games.