Vincent Zimmer was born in Houston, Texas, where he also grew up. Vincent attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and achieved a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Vincent has worked for various technology companies, including Intel Corporation, where he has been employed since 1997. While working at Intel, Vincent received his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Vincent is presently a senior principal engineer in the Software and Services Group at Intel. During Vincent's 23 year career working on embedded systems and firmware, he has received over 320 US patents and presented at several industry conferences. In addition to the Beyond BIOS book, Vincent has published book chapters and articles. Along with writing firmware, Vincent has also contributed to and written specifications in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Forum, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Vincent presently lives in the Seattle area of Washington state with his wife and 2 daughters.