About Me
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I live in Seattle, where I spend pretty much all of my time doing random things with my beautiful and brilliant wife Jennifer Zwick and writing a whole lot of code.
I work on WordFly as the “Interactive Architect”, which is just a fancy way of saying that I write lots and lots of JavaScript and a fair amount of C#, all the while working very closely with the designer in the persuit of highly responsive and easy to use user interfaces.
In my spare time I work almost exclusively with Node.js on a personal project that I hope to release within the next year. Many fun sub-projects have come of this, including Tubbs (database-agnostic model layer), fspkg (file system packager), express-form (form validation and filtering), Mustachio (mustache.js templates with view helpers) and others, all of which are open source and MIT licensed.
I’ve made a somewhat strange trajectory in what I’ve chose to spend my time doing. I started out as little skater-kid on the streets of pre-tech-boom Seattle. I then taught myself to play drums and ended up starting a few bands, including a noise metal band and a mathy indie-rock band before tiring of the unending drama and calling it quits.
As the musical acts I was a part of began to release seven-inches, CD’s, and LP’s, I began dipping my toe into the unknown sea of graphic design in order to create the packaging for said products. This eventually led me to working as a designer at an underground comix publisher where I got to meet an amazing range of people who were passionately devoted to the art form of comic books and graphic novels. I later went on to work as the Assistant Art Director at the now defunct The Rocket magazine under Stewart A. Williams.
During the entire time that I worked as a graphic designer I was constantly frustrated by one thing: my dependence on artists to provide me with the raw materials of drawings and photographs to work into my designs. Since I sucked at drawing (and still do) I decided to get a camera and start photographing things for myself. With the help of Jeffrey Degolier, who was able to procure a limitless supply of free 35mm film, I fell in love with photography and decided that graphic design was a complete waste of my time.
I ended up declining an offer to attend CCA for Graphic Design and instead enrolled in the Photography Program at the University of Washington. Before starting at UW, I took a backpack and my camera and traveled around Israel for the summer, which was insane, and also very hot.
Then: photo was awesome, then video, then interactive video, then my wonderful fiancée (now wife!) and graduation, a dog, web development, a bunch of programming languages, some other things, and son, a really funny startup, and now, this period right here: .