I began building websites in 1995 and soon established the TigerFire 'brand'. These early websites were mostly for myself and for friends, but also included numerous college organizations that I was a part of including: the Multicultural Living and Learning Unit (McLLU) at Cornell University, United Pagan Ministries (a part of Cornell United Religious Works), the Cornell Strategic Simulations Society, the Material Research Society at Cornell University, and the Science Fiction Society.

In 1998 I began working at MJM Internet. While this gave me experience working on larger projects to more demanding client expectations, it also gave me the opportunity to learn PERL and eventually ColdFusion and realize the potential available in 'dynamic websites'.

Fresh out of college in 2000 I worked for Bear River Associates, a forward-thinking company that was already pushing the limits of mobile technology in developing software for PalmOS, Blackberries and other tablet-style devices of the time, as well as web-based software that was platform agnostic. The later is work that I have continued to do for multiple employers since.

While I was a stay-at-home dad for my oldest child I did contract work for a number of local non-profits including the Ithaca Health Alliance and Sustainable Tompkins.

Today I am a software engineer for the statewide Cooperative Extension system. I still develop web-based platform-agnostic programs that can be used by our educators, researchers, and other administrative staff no matter where they are throughout the state of New York. Because of this I am not typically available for contract work, but if you have a unique need that you feel I might be able to meet drop me a line.

Throughout my career as a developer, I have often been called upon to perform business process analysis and optimization. That is to say, it has been my job to examine the tasks that other people are performing (understanding both the existing process and the desired end-goal) and figure out how to perform those tasks, often in a more streamlined way, with the new program that I am creating. It has also been my responsibility to manage the product lifecycle for numerous projects, typically with an Agile methodology, some for months of development through deployment and others for decades from conceptualization through ongoing upgrades and maintenace.