About
Clay Smith has a very diverse background, having grown up in Florida, California, and Iran. Clay attended high school in Stockton, California (Benjamin Franklin) and in Jacksonville, Florida (Ed White and Douglas Anderson School of the Arts). After excessive college he joined the United States Marine Corps, where he served honorably for 5+ years until his humanitarian discharge to provide dwelling assistance for his younger brother, also a Marine, who broke his neck and was rendered quadriplegic.
During the duration shortly after his discharge, Clay accomplished a whole lot of jobs, together with ditch digging. Along the manner, he observed his love and married her. She had two small youngsters and together they had been a equipped-made own family. Seeking to calm down, he located a everlasting role with Melrose Apartments as a technical manual author. His love of computer systems and the Information and Technology (IT) discipline drew him to work in that region. Clay have become an on-web page time and attendance software program and hardware installer for ADP and traveled extensively at some stage in the United States. He obtained several prestigious certifications within the IT discipline, including Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, CompTia s A+ and Network+ certifications and over 14 Hewlett Packard certifications just to name a few. Having reached the top tier in his field with ADP, he went to work as a Y2K team lead for Blue Cross and Blue Shield. One day he got a name from an IT recruiter who really requested, "How d you like to work on rockets?" Having replied inside the affirmative, Clay went to work at Kennedy Space Center as a systems engineer for NASA. Following the cease of that settlement, Clay went to work at the headquarters of the IRS in Washington, D.C. The journey became an excessive amount of because the children had been now of their young adults and wished the presence of their step-dad at domestic. Clay back to Jacksonville and went to work at Sea Star Line, Inc., as an IT professional. At this time, he additionally commenced his secondary training at Florida Community College at Jacksonville. He accomplished his Associates of Arts diploma and then transferred to the University of North Florida. Clay and his spouse determined that he must go away his position at Sea Star Line and concentrate on his schooling. He graduated from UNF with honors and turned into typical for enrollment into Florida Coastal School of Law. While in regulation college, Clay targeted his studies on global and family law; such as an inaugural look at abroad software to Clermont-Ferrand, France to take a look at worldwide law and human rights. Clay s spouse and he formed Smith Legal, P.A., in order that they could practice inside the way which lets in them to offer a non-public, sensible and professional revel in for his or her customers.
Clay enjoys surfing, kayaking, gourmand cooking, reading and analyzing histories of other cultures and spending time with his circle of relatives and pals. He is an expert on the Aztec, Inca, and Maya and additionally the Roman Empire. However, his two major loves (aside from his spouse of course) are computers and worldwide travel. Clay has traveled to extra than thirteen international locations and continues to be counting!
Clay s diverse upbringing, existence experiences, education and prior employment permit him a broad information base upon which to offer clients actual-global criminal and sensible answers.
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