Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Brian Matthew Armstrong is an American technical diver and founding board member of the non-profit Rubicon Foundation. Armstrong was born on May 12, 1973 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His family moved to North Carolina where he eventually attended Parkwood High School and graduated in 1991. He then attended the North Carolina State University, graduating in 1995 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After college, Armstrong worked as an engineer for Nortel before leaving to take a position as an engineer contracted to the United States Postal Service. Armstrong was first certified in scuba diving by H. Larry Brown at NCSU in 1994. Following this first class, he began assisting the diving classes while continuing his diving education. Armstrong was certified as a cave diver and NAUI instructor in 1995. In 2002, Armstrong joined with divers James Wagner and Gene Hobbs in the formation of the Rubicon Foundation to further diving education, research and conservation efforts