About Me

I suppose one could say I started my journey into web design way back in 1981 when my dad brought home a brand-new Apple II computer. I was about 9 years old at the time and coincidentally, my best friend Shawn had one as well. We learned how to program Basic and became addicted to anything that resembled a game. We would spend hours writing "choose-your-own-adventure" style text games and playing Apple Invader and Ultima. Initially, we had to load everything up via cassette player, but soon enough we had a couple of external 5 1/4" floppy drives and were off to the races copying (basically pirating, but we were young and had no idea) every game we could beg or borrow from our friends. As we know, there was no such thing as the internet back then, but Algore was only a few years away from inventing it so let's move ahead a bit.

I was a newlywed and needed a job after recently graduating from college with a B.A. in English. After talking to a local temp agency, I received a call from a headhunter. Through one of his "back-doors" he found my resume and called me in to talk about placing high-level tech guys. There was a ton to love about this line of work: Huge income potential, a cushy office and the chance to talk tech with cutting edge candidates. I took the job and began working with consultants and partners in the technology field in Silicon Valley, Chicago and New York. I was soon placing Lawson, JD Edwards, Oracle and Genesis consultants as well as XML, C++ and Visual Basic programmers. Overall it was a great gig but it had the side-effect of making me really want to be one of the people I was placing.

Fast-forward a little bit more. A friend and I needed a website to showcase our musical endeavors. We had been writing some instrumental music we thought would be great for film and video, so we wanted to showcase it in a unique way. I bought a book on XHTML and started studying in my spare time when I was not working my full-time gig or taking care of my family. I found web design very enjoyable and even though we found better options for displaying our musical prowess, I was hooked and continued to bury my nose in new books and web tutorials on XHTML, CSS, Javascript and eventually cool frameworks like .NET and JQuery. I purchased some server space with the intent of becoming a better web designer and used it as my practice canvas. Eventually, at the advice of my wife, I started letting people know I did this and it seemed like the flood gates opened. A lot of people I knew needed websites. So I started building them and eventually got to a point where I was not satisfied being just a web designer. I wanted to develop.

And that's where I am now. I am currently devouring every bit of information I can find on .NET and C# with the express intent of being an enterprise-level web developer. I am not shy about letting people know what I do and what I can do to help them. If you need a website shoot me an email. I would love to speak with you. Also, if you need a junior-level .NET guy in your organization I would love to talk about that as well.