frog design

Technical Architect 2009-?

Simply put, I bridge the technical, creative, and strategic disciplines across the studio to ensue technical viability (i.e. make sure the designers don’t get too designy). I work with some of the most brilliant, creative, tattooed, bald, and/or bearded people about. While you might not have heard of frog, $10 bucks says you use something we made.

You can thank me later.

IBM

Enterprise Architect, Developer, and Evangelist: 2001-2009

Started out as an architect working for an ISV developer outreach organization. A lot of workshops, conferences, porting efforts, upgrades, architectural assessments and the like. Did a lot of hand holding but there was travel and generally a pretty good gig for bit. Later moved to a prototyping lab set up like a movie set with technology dripping from the scaffolds. Like waiting tables, it’s something everyone should do at some point in their life. Also like waiting tables, you should later do something else.

Viseta

Lead Developer: 1998 – 2001

Ah the dot-com days… mostly played hacky-sack out front and crossed our fingers when cashing our checks. Developed some pretty awesome apps along the way though.

iNetRep

Lead Developer: 1996 – 1998

Couldn’t tell you what happened to this company. Can’t even find the street on the map. That massive grid of suburban sprawl was at the time nothing but trees and the Silverado Cafe. Most memorable event: the time an old cowpoke saw me reading a Unix book at the Silverado and asked me how I felt about “that there KY 2000 virus everybody’s gonna git”. “Um, I think that’s a completely ‘nother problem, sir.”