Brent was born in El Paso, Texas on December 12th of 1959. Growing up he was very active in sports. He played Pee Wee League Baseball for a few years, but didn't play Little League. He learned to play basketball out on an unlevel dirt patch. He broke more basketball rims and went through more basketball nets than he can count. He played basketball for La Plata Junior High in the 7th, 8th and 9th grades. Then he made the varsity basketball team his sophmore year at Silver High School lettering his sophmore, junior and senior years. He also lettered in track his junior and senior years in the high jump and long jump. His highest jump was 6 foot (an inch over his head).

He graduated high school in 1978. While in high school he took a few accounting classes and thought that this is what he wanted to study in college. The fall of 1978 he started school at Western New Mexico University and started his study of accounting. During his third year at WNMU, he found accounting to be really boring and decided, after taking a computer class, that he wanted to change majors and start studying computers. Since he already had several business classes under his belt, he decided to stay in the business arena and transfer to New Mexico State University and study Business Computer Systems. December of 1984 he completed his studies and received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Computer Systems.

While Brent was attending WNMU, he got involved with the Silver City Ultimate Frisbee team known as La Peda. They traveled to different cities in the region (Phoenix, Tuson, Arazona; El Paso, Texas; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Denver and Boulder, Colorado) and played in gruling tournaments. He started playing golf and played City League basketball. A lot of the time you would find him in the gym or in a park somewhere playing basketball. He continued to play Ultimate Frisbee and golf after transferring to NMSU. Basketball now took a back seat.

Also, after high school Brent started working at the newly built McDonalds. He worked there through his three years at WNMU and also transferred to the McDonalds in Las Cruces and worked there his three and a half years while at NMSU. After graduating from NMSU and not finding a job right away, he transferred back to the Silver City McDonalds. One day while working a noon shift, one of the team members of the La Peda frisbee team came in and Brent asked him if he was going to frisbee practice that night and the guy said, no, that he was too busy. So Brent asked him what he did for a living and the guy said he was a Computer Consultant. Brent then asked him if he needed any help. The guy's face lit up and he asked Brent what he got his degree in and Brent said, Business Computer Systems. He said, "I'd like to talk to you." to Brent and shortly after that Brent was a Computer Technician for Michael Cox Associates, a two person (well three person now--Michael, his wife and Brent) firm. Michael had Brent programming in dBaseII, some reports for a Video Store Management System he developed. After about six months of this Michael shifted his focus to selling a pre-programmed software for Auto-Body shops. He had all of New Mexico and El Paso, Texas region. For three months he pounded the pavement trying to sell this Auto-Body software with little to no luck. Niether he, nor Brent were really salesmen, so soon Micheal found himself going out of business. Brent went back to work at McDonalds.

Fall of 1986 Brent decided to move to Kansas City, Missouri to pound the pavement there and look for a job in computer programming. He moved in with some really good freinds of the family. Prior to leaveing Silver City, he filled out and turned in his State of New Mexico job application. While in Kansas City he got a call from the Health and Environment Department (HED) in Santa Fe, and flew back to New Mexico for the interview. He thought the interview went so-so, and then went back to pounding the streets in Kansas City. After a few weeks, he got the "job offer" and accepted a position as a Programmer Analyst II. When he called home to let Mom and Dad know about the position, they were so happy they went out an bought a couch to replace his bed in his old room.

Brent moved to Santa Fe, and worked for HED in February of 1987. He found a group of people that played Ultimate Frisbee and continued his fresbee playing. He also found a group of people for basketball and started playing City League Basketball again. He played basketball year round for about seven years and frisbee in the summer until the fall of 1994 when he started having problems with his leg. Doctors found a blood clot in the artery behind his knee that was causing his leg and foot to cramp up. They operated and removed the clots, but he wasn't able to continue playing basketball or frisbee. About this same time Brent started to play golf again, and also picked up the game of volleyball. He plays co-ed volleyball on a City League team and a State Noon Co-Ed Volleyball League.

Brent met Sharon January 10th of 1995 and his life changed again. They married on August 17, 1996 and gave Lee and Leon their only two grand children, Christopher Brent born November 24, 1997 and Jennifer Lauren born July 9, 2001. Most of his free time (or what use to be free time) is spent enjoying his wife and children.

In July of 1997, Brent changed jobs with the state (after 10 years, 5 months and 2 days with HED which became Department of Health (DOH) somewhere in there) and started working for the Office of the State Engineer (OSE). He went from programming systems on the mainframe in COBOL to developing and maintaining the OSE website. Much stress was relieved and he really enjoys working for OSE. To sample more of his work, go to http://www.seo.state.nm.us).

As of February 9th, 2002, Brent has worked for the State of New Mexico for fifteen year which is over half way towards State retirement. After retirement he's told people that he'd like to find a job at a golf course where they'll let him play free. Of course now with the two kiddos he'll have to work another fifteen years after his State retirement.