Originally from Ohio, shortly after graduating from The Ohio State University I left the Midwest for New York City. I began my career in engineering as a developer at ForSaleByOwner.com which was acquired by Tribune.
I eventually left the old publishing industry for the NYC digital agency scene joining then i33 which during my tenure transformed into 360i and shortly thereafter Dentsu. For a full record of my employment please view my resume.
In March 2010 I was offered an incredible opportunity to a recently venture-funded financial startup called YCharts, a company dedicated to building the next generation of value-based market analysis tools.
At this moment my primary technologies are python/django, javascript/nodejs, and two major nosql databases - riak and couchdb. I've also taken on the endeavor to learn emacs.
I was always interested with technology, even at an early age I was disassembling and upgrading my Packard Bell Pentium 90. I eventually began working at a local radio/tv station as part of a weekend skeleton crew that kept the station running. As a result I had exposure to various broadcast communications technology and tv production software. Despite everyone's thoughts I would pursue a career in broadcast television, in college I studied computer science and psychology with a desire to become a game developer and began working with web technology to build a portfolio online. Fortunately the web industry was recovering from the initial dot-com crash and my skills with web technology were in demand which brought me to NYC. And here we are today.
This website is built using django a wonderful python web-framework. Most of the code libraries that were used to power the django application exist as open-source projects I've contributed to on github.