About

I’m a software designer and developer living in Champaign, IL. I am a partner at Maintainable Software, a contract software company based out of San Francisco Bay Area. We build software that ranges from small website design to large factory test automation systems. In addition, I am the author of Rails for PHP Developers published by the Pragmatic Programmers.

My Professional History

I am formally educated in the fine arts, concentrating in design and photography. I started experimenting with projects on the web about 10 years ago. I gained employment as a designer for a popular peer-to-peer startup during a co-op in college where I got my first taste of how fun it is to develop software.

After graduating from college, I began work as a full-time software developer at another small startup company — Amici, LLC. Amici was a legal software company with only around 15 employees when I began. By the time I left four years later, Amici had grown to nearly 120 employees and was purchased by Xerox Corporation.

For the past five years I have been working on an additional project — SportSpyder.com with my brother Dallas. SportSpyder has grown tremendously since we’ve started, and continues to be a challenging and rewarding endeavor.

My Personal Bio

I’m somewhat of a nomad recently. I’ve lived in Georgia, Michigan, New York, Arizona, and am now in Illinois for a year. Recent moves are due to my lovely wife Melissa’s endeavor to obtain a PHD in school psychology. Now with a new daughter — Sevilla, we do plan to settle down some day.

I’m a big fan of the outdoors, traveling, hiking, camping, rock climbing, skateboarding, and snowboarding. Of course I’m sitting behind my computer at all other times.

About this Site

This website has been around since 2001, and has been through many different iterations. This site was previously a art portfolio site to host much of the multimedia work I did while at college. Much of this work is being moved to flickr, and will be showcased again here shortly.