About
Me:
1982 was an interesting year. The stock market was just embarking on the greatest bull run in history, The U.S. had emerged from its protracted period of self-loathing, disco was as close to dead as it could get, and IBM had just come out with this thing called the PC.
I had just received a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics. Married and with a baby on the way, I went to work as a research engineer for a small company in Huntsville, AL, doing classified work for the military. It didn’t last too long, but I had a lot of fun writing assembly language routines, programming in Pascal on the Commodore 64, and hauling boxes of punch cards to a Control Data “supercomputer” housed in a multi-story building down the street. It’s hard to believe how much technology has evolved in the interim.
My next stint lasted almost two decades and involved management roles with several large corporations. I even spent a couple of years working for Iomega (remember the Zip drive?). I did a lot of project management and ran manufacturing and supply chain operations of various sizes and complexity.
Well, a short while ago I broke from the corporate life and went out on my own. After a number of fits and starts, here I am, developing websites and writing custom JavaScript applications. I think I’m driven by 2 things: a desire to learn new things and to solve puzzles.
This Site:
The page you’re looking at here is being generated by the incredibly popular WordPress content management system. The styling and layout of the entire site relies heavily on the Blueprint CSS framework. With it I was able to get the site up and running very quickly (can’t you tell?).
My Work:
Working with graphic designers I can put together sites large and small, sites that are essentially static to full-blown content management systems with e-commerce capability. I focus on clean, semantically driven XHTML and CSS, and I do my coding in JavaScript and PHP.
I sweat the details. All of them.