About me

I've got a rather unusual personal history. I've lived on three continents. I'm a native speaker of English and French, and am operationally fluent in Japanese, although I'm still working being able to read the newspaper. Only a few hundred kanji left to go…

By training, I'm a plant evolutionary ecologist, although I left that career path behind before finishing my Ph.D. I'm a fully self-taught engineer, and have learned a lot along the way about how organizations work, how teams work, how software work happens, and how people come together to get work done.

For fun, I'm all about food, both making and eating! Also, Japanese calligraphy, plant photography, and boardgames. And don't forget the kittenz! 😻

Some things I've built

In addition to my work for the companies listed on my resume, I've also built these:

• Mixologi.st: a collection of my favorite cocktails, mostly vintage recipes.
• Angelita Surmon's site: Angie is a local artist. I've been maintaining her site for years.
• Doubt About Will: A site that assembles many arguments skeptical that the guy from Stratford is the guy who wrote the plays. Security has been an issue, because of the tourism industry in Stratford-upon-Avon.
• FixYourOwnBack.com: I built a previous version of this site with Dr. Phillip Snell (my chiropractor!), designed to get pre- and post- intervention data to prove that ~75% of people with discogenic lower back pain could heal themselves with online training without hands-on chiropractic treatment. We got scooped on publication by other chiropractors, so we dismantled the site and pivoted to an off-the-shelf e-learning platform.

About this site

The site is hand-coded, built using Bridgetown, and hosted by GitHub Pages.

Thanks to Flaticon and Icons8 for the icons.