About

I’m a software designer and developer in Salt Lake City, UT. 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.

Professional

I am formally educated in the fine arts, concentrating in design and photography. I’ve worked at various startup companies for the past 10 years as a graphic designer and software developer. The first was a peer-to-peer software company which no longer exists. The next was a four year tenure at Amici — a successful legal software company that grew fast, and was bought by Xerox for a large chunk of change.

For the past five years I have been working on a sports website — SportSpyder.com with my brother Dallas. SportSpyder is essential if you’re a sports fan!

I’ve contributed to multiple open source projects including Ruby on Rails, PHPUnit, Horde, Maintainable Framework, and Zend Framework. I’ve also contributed website design for multiple open source projects such as RubyOSA, Supervisor, and Repoze. Other open source projects can be found on my GitHub Page.

Personal

When not behind the computer, I’m a Dad, skateboarder, snowboarder, and rock climber.

About this Site

This website has been around since 2001, and has changed quite a few times. It used to just show off my artwork, but I’ve moved most of that to flickr. I’ll make an area for this stuff again here soon hopefully.