Mix Equal Parts Geek, Designer, Marketer, and Idealist...
I started young. I was lucky enough to be a child when the first generation of home computers hit the market. I was also fortunate enough to have a grandfather that had to have one - or three. I remember lying on the floor poring over a boy scout manual when he walked in the room and handed me a bound photocopy of a book on programming in BASIC for the Commodore VIC-20. Honestly, I wasn't really interested at first. It took me about a year to actually start reading that book, but it was cool... so I was eight years old when I began tapping code into a computer, and I've never stopped.
I was eleven when I first learned to run a sound system, seventeen when I first worked as a designer in a print shop, eighteen when I first became a DeeJay, and twenty when I built my first website. Of course, when I built my first website Netscape 1.0 was still in wide usage and was replacing the seminal "Mosaic" as the web browser of choice. Internet Explorer didn't really have a foothold yet as Bill Gates had only just figured out that the Internet wasn't actually a fad.
Now I'm in my early thirties and am passionate about media of all sorts. I love the ability to bring formerly disparate methods of communication together to work as one, like audio and video being delivered over the web. I love photography, videography, audio, web design, print design, and 3D modeling. I especially love how we can use media technologies to bring people together - virtual tools helping real people develop real communities.
Software Toolset
Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Illustrator CS4, Adobe InDesign CS4, Style Master 5.0, TextMate, NetBeans, Blender 3D, Final Cut, SoundTrack, Audacity, CeltX, Cyphon.
Programming & Markup Languages
Ruby, PHP, Java, C, Perl, JavaScript, HTML, XHTML, CSS, learning Objective-C.
Web Frameworks and CMS's
Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Java ServerFaces, WordPress, Drupal
Interesting Sidenote
Currently holds a technician class amateur radio operators licence, callsign KD0HHR.