Hello.
I am an artist, photographer, web developer, husband, corgi dad, & working to become a better human
Personal.
I am an artist and web developer in Reno, NV, where I live and play with the love of my life, Nicole, and our tri-color corgi Olive.
These days I am working on my mindfulness/meditation practice and learning how to be a better human. I play too many video games, but when I am not doing that I am practicing photography and creating art. I have recently picked up the paint brush after many years of not creating artwork or being creative at all.
For many years (2007-2010) I helped run an online electronic music radio station with my wife called Lunchbox Radio, hosted several live shows a month. Dance music has been a big part of my life. From 2014-2016 I got behind the decks finally, and was a resident DJ for a techno + house monthly called Shift.
I am a part time Linux nerd, and was part of the leadership team for the local Reno Linux Users Group (RLUG) in 2015. We hosted monthly events at the Reno Collective. It was a great experience, and I am grateful for the trust and authority that was put into me.
Professional.
I am a senior web developer at Noble Studios. I have been doing web development & web design professionally since 2004. I focus more on backend these days but am well versed in the entire stack. My day to day revolves around leading project development, working with project and account managers on resource allocation, planning, timelines, and helping develop processes and standards for the engineering department. I am responsible for many of the devops tasks in the company. I am what you would call a “firefighter” (my wife says i’m the Wolf from Pulp Fiction). When the shit hits the fan on projects I am brought in to un-fuck things and set them right.
I enjoy working with WordPress and Drupal. I have a lot of experience with Magento, X-Cart, ExpressionEngine, and CraftCMS. I’d rather get down and dirty and build using vanilla PHP or with CakePHP.
I love designing & architecting custom web applications. Many of my favorite projects have been internal tools, such as web based password manager, estimate tracking/development tool, website performance monitoring and analysis, and a tool to help assist in the more manual and tedious QA tasks that we engage with on projects. Custom web dev is super fun!
Things.
Some things I have been working on here and there.