About Me

In Brief

• Self-professed (and slightly obsessed) computer geek since the early 80s
• Building websites (or is it “web sites”) since 1995
• Writing web applications professionally since 2000
• Love Apple computers and UNIX®-like operating systems; Windows continues to annoy me.
• Write code primarily in C#, for now.
• Want or need more contact info than phone & email?
• My résumé

The Long Version

The Early Years

My first exposure to computers and computer programming came during the early 80s in whichever form of Microsoft Basic which came on the Mattell Aquarius. Eventually, I “upgraded” to a TRS-80 and then a Commodore 64. Back then, programming consisted primarily of copying basic programs verbatim out of a book.

Somewhere around ’89/’90 I got the chance to use a Tandy 1000 (running MS-DOS 3.3) during my annual summer excursion to Grandma’s. Shortly thereafter, I bought my own computer (a Packard Bell 386SX-16) and since then, I’ve spent enormous amounts of time breaking, fixing, building and hacking on computers.

I discovered the web in ’94 during my sophomore year in high school as someone had surreptitiously installed a copy of Netscape on one of the computers in the school library. A couple months later, I was spending a few hours a day in the school’s A/V room, which had better computers than the library and was staffed by someone that let us do pretty much whatever we wanted. Mostly, though, we wanted to surf the web and build websites. In 1996, I made the jump from PCs to the Mac on the desktop and, except for a dark chapter doing IT help desk stuffs in ’98/’99, I haven’t looked back. Around the same time, Linux and/or Unix became my preferred server/programming platform.

The 21st Century

From October 2000 to June 2006 I was privileged to work with a bunch of incredibly talented people at Toolhouse Design Company. I really can’t say enough great things about the company and the people I worked with. They’re the best interactive firm in the Pacific Northwest, if not the entire country. While at Toolhouse, I had the privilege to work with companies like Intuit, Symantec and Chiron (now Novartis). My work at Toolhouse ran the gamut, from custom web application development to Flash/web services integration to systems administration.

In June 2006, I left Toolhouse to work for PIER Systems (then AudienceCentral), where I worked primarily on improving the company’s communications management product. PIER Systems software is used by some of the largest organizations in the world—including BP, Shell, Marathon, the U.S. Coast Guard and major universities—to communicate with the press, neighbors, employees and students during crises. I left PIER Systems at the end of September 2008.

After leaving PIER, I took a month or so off and then spent a couple of months doing freelance web development work before accepting my current position at Logos Research Systems.

The Present

In late December 2008, I accepted a position as a Software Developer at Logos Bible Software. In my time at Logos, I’ve worked on the flagship product, Logos 4, as well as various web properties.

Beyond The Keyboard

I live in Bellingham, WA and I have been happily married to my high school sweetheart since 1998 and we have two sons. Most of my non-working time is spent with family and friends. For those that are really curious, you can read more about my family’s exploits on our family blog.

I don’t really have “spare” time, but when I find a bit of time, I usually find myself doing one of these three things: reading really old books, messing around on my guitar and CrossFit.