About me? I love the Web. It was kind of love at first sight, and I know that sounds cheesy. But it’s true. I was a computer geek with a major creative side. As soon as I met the Web and understood that building websites was something I could do I just knew that’s what I had ahead of me.
My other interests vary greatly. The best way to get a sense of those is to just watch and read the stuff I’ll be posting or have posted already. Want to know more? Just ask, or follow me on Twitter. I’d love to hear from you.
Some quick facts:
- I currently work at Bozell and we’re building some awesome websites these days!
- I used to own Orajen Group until Bozell acquired us on July 1, 2008.
- I have a degree in Printmaking from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
- I nearly completed a minor in Computer Science, but decided to say, “Screw it” and start building websites and focus on art instead.
- I studied art in Antwerp, Belgium under Veerle Rooms at the Karel de Grote Hogeschool.
- I built my first website in 1994. It was on AOL‘s member pages which don’t exist anymore.
- That first site was for the band Semisonic. It was their first website ever, and helped me secure the job as their webmaster. They are still a client as is Dan Wilson, Semisonic’s lead singer and Grammy-award-winning songwriter.
- I’ve been on the Internet since 1992. Gopher. Wais. Usenet. Telnet. FTP. Email. Yeah – lifelong geek here.
- My first computer was a Commodore Vic-20 and I have fond memories of writing BASIC programs to display graphics on the screen and hacking the word bank on the Hangman program we wrote so that it would use “dirty” words.
- I grew up right across the street from Benson Park, which is now just a shell of the expansive, open space that it used to be. I still prefer to spend as much time outdoors as possible which I attribute to having such an amazing open space so close to home.
- I was born in Omaha, NE on November 28.