Tien Nguyen is the son of two Vietnamese immigrants who feld a falling Vietnam in the early 1980s, escaping to the Phillipines for 7 months with their then 4 year old daughter. They finally found and boarded a boat that was sailing halfway across the earth to the Western United States. Then, on December 26, 1983 at Memorial Hospital in Sacramento, CA, they had a 6 pound 15 ounce son and named him Tien Van Nguyen.
Tien would go on and move down south first to the middle of the mean streets of downtown Oakland, and finally into suburban land othrwise known as Union City.
His (what some considers trange) infatuation with math and numbers pushed his way toward a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics at the University of California-Los Angeles, given during the spring of 2006.
After a few attempts at creating a strong presence on the web, in college during the spring of 2006, he and a friend spawned off bruinpied.com. BP was a blog aimed toward warning college students and recent graduates of the potential pitfalls of revealing incriminating evidence online that could be damaging toward onlooking potential employers. Its relevancy combined with tactical PR techniques allowed it to be featured in publications such as the New York Times, NPR’s Weekend America, KABC News, KNBC news, among many others.
Currently he resides in Union City while working as a sales/advertising coordinator in San Francisco’s Financial district joining two British senior members at a long-running UK based science/technology dot co dot u-k that has recently expanded its base to the US to take advantage of a new advertising market.
He loves to travel and try out new things, and his passport includes stamps from Vietnam, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Porgutal, and Germany.
In his spare time he likes to root for his home teams including the A’s, Raiders, Warriors, and Bruins; learning of the various new technologies encompassing this world of ours; drive around his car while proudly listening to his musicals; enjoying the many sceneries of Bay Area night life; and writing self musings about nothing and everything for the world to see.
And he does not normally refer to himself in the third person.