About Me
I work as a Senior Developer and Team Lead at Engauge Digital, an agency that specializes in web-based interactive marketing applications. My passion is Interaction Design; it was the focus of my graduate thesis and ID principles inform all of the work I do as a software engineer.
Before discovering ID and becoming a programmer, I produced music and worked in audio post-production for Century III, a subsidiary of Universal Studios. At C3, I worked on Florida City, a low-budget feature-length film and Memphis: Rock n' Soul with Cybill Shepherd, a radio series produced for NPR.
My fledgling career as a music producer was cut short by an unfortunate series of events that include Apple Computer's acquisition of Emagic in 2002 and a crashed hard-drive (it's a long story).
Education
| Graduate | 2001-2004, MS in Computer Science from Florida State Univesity with a specialization in Human Computer Interaction. Graduate thesis entitled Interaction Design Patterns for Musical Applications. |
| Undergraduate | 1996-2001, BA in Liberal Arts (with Honors) from The University of Central Florida with specializations in music, mathematics, and computer science. Undergraduate thesis entitled From Futurism to the Future: The Development of Sound in Music |
Interests, Skills & Hobbies
| Interests | Web and Mobile application development, HCI, cloud computing, usability, Agile development |
| Programming | Extensive experience with .Net (C# and VB), HTML/CSS/Javascript, XML/XSL/XPath. Experienced in a wide variety of open-source technologies: NHibernate, Moq, MVC .Net, NUnit, Prototype. Other languages include: Python, Objective-C, Java. |
| Hobbies | Reading, blogging, playing guitar, programming |