Webmaster, University of Cincinnati College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services

At CECH, I help design and deploy information systems for the college and for integration into University systems. In addition to maintaining the public facing website, I developed two versions of a custom content management system before planning and overseeing the migration to WordPress. Further, I design data systems to enhance our marketing goals, track our progress, do statistical analysis of our marketing efforts and maintain internal information system integrity. I love my job at CECH because it is always pushing me to learn knew things and figure out how to make our message work for our audience — and ultimately, great design and great websites are all about connecting with your audience!

Webmaster, Joy in the Harvest

Joy in the Harvest is where I had my web training wheels taken off. They were kind enough to allow me to explore, learn and experiment with the Internet and multimedia communications for many years while I developed maintained their website for them. In addition to designing and programming their custom content management system, I also migrated their website to WordPress when the system I designed could no longer be supported.

Programmer, Asbury College Math Modeling

The Math Modeling contest is an international mathematics competition that I (not being a math major) was geeky enough to partake in. We were presented with a complex problem (understanding and improving the kidney donation and distribution system in the United States) and were tasked with creating a computer model (simulation) to show our proposed improvements to the system. As the only available Ruby programmer at the time, I was brought in to write a multi-threaded model that ran on a 10-node cluster (which I also helped configure). Our generated data sets ran three consecutive test over 17 simulated years each. We generated over 1TB of data and introduced enhancements to the system which represented a several-percentage-point increase in patient survival.

Administrator, Christian Webmasters Association

When I first got involved in web programming, I sought out a community of web programmers to immerse myself in. What I found was one man, determined to build a Christian community of programmers. I was user #2 on the system. Over the months and years, I ended up becoming a moderator and then an administrator, helping organize and oversee a volunteer staff of of half a dozen. During my time as an Administrator, I helped contribute code to literally thousands of members, helping troubleshoot, diagnose and experiment with web technologies.

Graphics: Fireworks, Illustrator, Photoshop

Programming: Coda, Textmate, Notepad, VIM

FTP: Transmit, shell

Browsers: Chrome, IE6+, FF, Safari, Opera

PHP (v4 & v5); HTML (all variants of 4 and now 5); XHTML (1.0 strict, if the server is properly configured); AJAX (jQuery is my best friend); SQL (specifically, MySQL… which is a close second for my best friend); XML

Asbury College (BA) Media Communications

In 2008 I received my BA in Media Communications (Multimedia & Production) from Asbury College. At the time, Asbury did not have a Computer Science major, and I wanted to study at Asbury. I learned a great deal about messaging and communication from my professors at Asbury, which I can readily apply to my desired occupation of web development.

Other than Web Development?

When I’m not hacking away on my Macintosh, I’m typically reading. I enjoy books about travel and other types of non-fiction (and some selected fiction).