My life

I'm 27 years old and live on the east side of Madison. I recently spent 20 months traveling around Asia and the Middle East. My hobbies include learning, plants, travel, and cooking.

My work

I think of programming like writing a novel. Just as one can learn a written language, one can learn a programming language. Writing a great novel, weaving a brilliant story, takes a mastery which requires time, experience, and dedication. Are you looking for someone to write code, or to architect a great application?

I think about security, efficiency, usability and SEO at the beginning of projects. I make standard compliant programs. I fully embrace progressive enhancement and graceful degradation.

Look at my portfolio, then look again without javascript. See how it degrades gracefully. Then run it through Page Speed. Then run it through the W3C validator. Note that all the images have alt tags and all the links have titles.

Relevant books I've read

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Code Complete 2
• Javascript Patterns

Bonus skills

• Picking ripe avocados
• Getting along with people
• Guessing the current time
• Taking responsibility
• Cracking eggs with one hand
• Being clear and succinct
• Folding fitted sheets