Development

I have had an off and on relationship with coding since I wrote my first lines of Basic in elementary school. I immediately found it interesting and wanted to explore what was possible but schools in rural Maine lacked resources and many people of experience to learn from. I would occasionally dabble with it, one time with a couple of friends in my freshman year we worked on a few programs to solve mathematical problems, but being more visually focused, I lost interest in this flavor of programming. In 1998 I bought one of the first generation iMacs (Bondi blue) and taught myself HTML, unfortunately I did not have any real projects to work on (and I did not like the syntax at the time) I moved on to other interests.

While studying photography, part of the curriculum was to build your own website with Adobe GoLive, cementing my interest in web design and development. Since 2002, I have occasionally designed and built websites for both myself and colleagues, primarily for artists or art related projects and ventures. I made several attempts to use CMS (primarity WordPress) based development tools over the years, but found them clunky and difficult to shape the way I wanted to create websites the way I could make them statically with Adobe products and tweaks to the code.

In 2015 my focus shifted to a more professional and deeper level of web development by learning front end languages, techniques and implementations. I was an early adopter of Gatsby and Styled-Components and love developing in the Jamstack.

Now I currently work as a Senior Web Developer at Brown University in Providence, RI.

I contribute to an open source project Greenwood, a static site genrator for Web Components.

Small Selection of Projects