About Me
I'm a recent graduate of Bowling Green State University, currently residing in Columbus, OH. During my junior year of college, I started a video production internship at Sea Lion Studio, a local production facility, that soon turned into a full-time job.
It was at Sea Lion that I first learned the powerful combination of PHP, MySQL, and standards-compliant XHTML and CSS markup. Updating a range of client sites (and building a few from the ground up) gave me the opportunity to hone my skills, try out new techniques, and learn from previous developers' accomplishments and defeats.
Now I'm working for the digital division of Fahlgren, a big-time advertising agency nestled in the heart of Easton Town Center. Who says practice doesn't pay off?
I enjoy comedy and making people laugh. I've done stand-up a few times (it's on YouTube), I make goofy faces, and my first two jobs both required I wear a Hawaiian shirt to work (A bizarre coincidence if I've ever seen one). My belief is that there's enough drama in the world, and I much prefer to laugh than to cry.
I have grown up around music and it's a large influence in my life. I played guitar in a band back in high school, and have been teaching myself piano since freshman year of college. Music production is a hobby that I'm hoping to have more time pursuing now that I am out of school.
In my free time (when I'm not reading web development blogs, absorbing technical manuals, or mapping out database table relations), I enjoy photography, playing guitar, watching TV, and tinkering with tech projects.