What to say...I'm 27, I live in Landsdowne Virginia...about a half hour drive from D.C. Currently my job is mostly front-end, or presentation layer web development for an internet yellow pages software company. I've tried most kinds of jobs at one time or another. I like board and card games a lot...texas hold em particularly, and chess. I love skiing but haven't gotten to a slope for a couple years. Mostly I spend my time at a computer for 8-12 hours a day trying to get as much done and learn as much as possible.

I got into web design after getting my animation degree at Full Sail Real World Education in 2002. When I moved back to VA it became apparent that there was more demand in the area for web sites than there was for animation. Figuring that knowing how to build web sites would only benefit me in the long run anyway, and would serve as an avenue to display my animation work, I got busy learning it. Since then I've learned a lot of Flash, because it's usually the best way to put 3D animation on the web. I've also learned quite a bit about servers, databases middleware languages in the interest of being able to build sites without outsourcing. Now that I'm fairly comfortable with web stuff, I often think about moving to Seattle. There's a fair amount of game design companies and animation studios on the west coast, and I have some family there.

One time while waiting for a train, I got to talking to this elderly gentleman about work and life and things like that. He asked what I would do for a living if there were no computers. It was quite a poignant question. "You mean if they were rendered useless by an electromagnetic pulse of some kind?" I said exhuberantly. "No not like that...if they just didn't exist...say it's the 1800's or something." he argued. I told him I'd never survive back then because everyone rode horses and I'm alergic to them, but if that weren't a factor I suppose I'd have to fall back on traditional art skills. What a distressing thought. I would've probably painted really odd stuff and been a stereotypical starving artist in life but famous in death. Now that I think about it, that doens't sound so bad.

I suppose it's rare that a person isn't a product of their time and place to some extent. My point I think was that I certainly am as far as work is concerned. I've wanted to make video games or some other form of entertainment media since I was 10 years old and lost the majority of a summer to Super Mario Bros 3. Thanks Nintendo!

That's all I've got right now. Why not chat it up w/ me on myspace?