Well … how did I get here?
- I was born in the late 1970s and grew up in Salem, Massachusetts
- In 1996 I graduated from a vocational high school with a C average grade and decent understanding of how to build things with bricks, stones, and cement
- After graduation, I spent a summer working as a mason’s apprentice and quickly determined I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life
- I then attended three different colleges and barely finished one of them; in the end I had an associate’s degree I wouldn’t utilize and about $25,000 of debt
- I spent a couple of years working in various retail stores, then spent a year driving a truck for a local lumber company; no joke, I loved that job
- In 2001 I met Sharon and we started dating
- In 2002 I realized that I needed to do something real, career-wise, and signed up for an evening class on web design and development at UMass Lowell
- In 2004 I landed my first web development job at a now-defunct financial company
- In 2005 I landed my second web development job at Net Atlantic
- In 2006 I landed my third web development job at a now-defunct agency
- In 2007 Sharon and I married and moved in together
- In 2008 I quit my job and started Boston Web Studio as well as the Build Guild
- In 2011 Sharon and I had our first child
- In 2012 I shut down Boston Web Studio, joined forces with a few friends, and became a Partner at The Outfit where I write a lot of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- In 2013 Sharon and I bought our first/current home
- In 2014 Sharon and I had our second child, and I stepped down from the Build Guild
- In 2015 Sharon and I had our third child, and I decided to stop having children
- On June 1st, 2022, The Outfit celebrated its ten-year anniversary
- On May 1st, 2023, I reached 15 years of self-employment
Personal interests
- I love working in our yard; being outdoors and improving our property is very satisfying to me
- I enjoy big-budget, narrative video games; scrolling through bringatrailer.com; most wheat beers; and trying to make the perfect Old Fashioned at home
Professional interests
In my work as a front-end web developer, I’m very interested in both performance and accessibility. I take great pride in building a fast website that can be used by all types of people for our clients.
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t always achieve both, but I try very hard to.
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