Introduction
So I sort of lied about the "freelance web developer" part. I can do it (hence this website), and even consider myself highly skilled in the practice, but typically it's done as part of
a larger project these days.
I was born in Cleveland, Ohio in early 1991, and home-schooled for most of my early years. Then when I was just turning 16, at the peak of socially-awkward-teenager period, I jumped into
a local private high school from which I graduated 2 years later and continued on to pursue a degree in Information Security and Forensics at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
From there I became involved with Computer Science House, a collection of students who, like me, absolutely love hacking on projects. Some of my
own projects are listed under the aptly named "projects" link to the left.
Currently I am in my third year at RIT and planning to graduate in May of 2013.
Interests
- My awesome girlfriend Bonnie (who does a great job putting up with all the crap below)
- GNU/Linux - name a distribution, I've probably tried it. If I haven't, I probably will when you name it.
- Networking
- Large scale IPv4/IPv6 network design
- Routing – I need to learn OSPF and BGP
- VPNs
- Performance optimization
- Service integration/SSO
- Coding
- PHP (and everything that comes with it - HTML, JS, CSS, SQL, etc.)
- C
- Perl
- Bash
- NSIS
- Music
- Nord keyboards – I own a Nord Stage 2 and might go for a Nord Wave in the future
- M-Audio – I loved my Keystation 88es to death before buying my current Axiom Pro 61. I also have their BX5a monitors.
- Metal: neo-classical, progressive, symphonic, anything that gets you thinking. Think Symphony X, Dream Theater, Epica, Opeth, Between the Buried and Me, ...
- Classical: J.S. Bach, Mozart, Antonín Dvořák, and a few others
- Hammond organs
- Traditional and FM synthesis/sound design, and the electronics associated with it
- God. I'm a Christian, hopefully the kind that you can respect.