About Me

I’m a front-end web developer in Omaha, Nebraska. Not a jack of all trades, I am a master of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I create content that is lean, semantically rich, accessible, and standards-based.

I started playing with Web Sites in the later half of the ’90s. Geocities and HTML For Dummies may not be the most impressive, but that sort of approachability is one of my favorite aspects of the Web — where else was a 17-year-old in rural Nebraska going to have access to such a platform of self-expression?

In college, I decided this was something I wanted to continue doing, and studied Management Information Science, with a minor in Graphic Design. At the same time, a large part of the output of my work is based on self-taught knowledge.

I constantly look to improve my skills, expecially in ways that can be useful long-term. Case in point: as part of a refresh of this site, I coded things out in HTML5, and worked up a basic back-end system using PHP and JSON. While I try to improve on every aspect of what I do, I’m especially interested in improving my skills from a usability/user-experience perspective.

I’m not just about the box-model and <video>…

At home, I like to gang-up on my wife with my daughter. Over the past 4 years, I've been shocked at how well I can relate to a toddler.

Baking is both a strength, and a weakness of mine — not that I’m complaining. I’ve recently taken up home-brewing, a hobby I look forward to turning into an obsession in the near future.

I have always been very good friends with the TV, and with the advent of Netflix streaming and the iPad, dishes take 3 times longer than they did 5 years ago. I have publicly admitted to enjoying anime. I can be tediously pedantic, and may quote Futurama and Monty Python a bit excessively, but I usually catch myself, and apologize.