About Me

I'm an independent programmer based in Portland, Oregon. I try to focus on supporting my existing clients and building usable, maintainable applications for web and Windows desktop environments.

My recent programming experience (since 2005) has centered around Access VBA and SQL server for desktop applications and several different web development platforms. Ruby on Rails 3.2 is my current framework of choice for web development, especially for larger applications. But I've built several web applications using a light weight PHP framework called Kohana.

I like to spend my spare time building Lego robots with my kids, playing piano and learning other programming languages, currently Python and Haskell.

Before settling down to become a full-time programmer, I studied control systems in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, served in the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa, worked as a project engineer for DST Controls in Benicia, CA and helped my dad build and manage his Illinois grain farm.