Jack E BalesI was born in 1954 and was adopted by Loren and Judy Bales of Bethany, Oklahoma. My biological mother was of Italian descent, her name being Mary Pulito, sealed the records so I could not contact her. My adoptive mother went back to college while I ws in high school, and influenced me to go to college to pursue my dream of being a medical doctor. They could not afford to pay my tuition, so I worked my way through, only for my grades to suffer. I went on to complete my Bachelor's Degree in Pre-medicine in 1982. I furthered my education by graduating in 1987 with an Associates Degree in Electronic Engineering and entered the field of Biomedical Electronics. I worked as a technician from 1987 to 2009. In pursuit of a patent for a device, I faced a surmountable amount of money to hire a Software Engineer to write a program for the device to run. Thus, I began a two year Master's program in Software and Information Systems Engineering, and graduated in 2013. I was not able to achieve my original dream but achieved many of my alternative goals, one which is being an author. Read More Read Less