After graduating JHS, I attended and graduated from JSU. I moved to South Florida and began working in sales with the Ernest and Julio Gallo Winery. I moved to Fort Myers, Orlando Tampa and then Miami (great city to be a Cuban!). I then moved to South Carolina with the Winery in 1996. In 1997, I accepted a position with Coca-Cola North America in Marketing and Sales and moved back to Alabama. I was blessed enough to have once again met Shelley Arnold who is now my wife. We have a beautiful 19 month old baby girl named Isabella (Bella for short). We were married in 1998. I now work for Coca-Cola United Bottling Group in Birmingham and Shelley is the CEO of the Suco house!