I’ve been programming computers since I was 10 years old. I taught myself BASIC on a TRS-80 Model I back when they first came to market. BASIC was fun to learn, but it was very limited by the whopping 16K of RAM I had to work with. I couldn’t make much with it (and it was terribly slow), so my dad hired a Z-80 assembly language tutor to teach me the only other language available for the TRS-80. I didn’t quite “get it” with assembly language at first, until my tutor taught me the most important thing: How a computer actually works. Learning that, changed my perspective and it all just made sense after that, more or less.
Since then, I’ve gained a lot of experience both personally and in my career, programming and building websites and applications.
My education, however, was more focused on illustration and design than programming. In fact, I didn’t do any programming during my entire six years in college (I had a free ride in college because my stepmom was the math-science professor there, so I took full advantage of it!).
So, with an education in illustration and graphic design, but a love of programming, led me directly to building websites, which I started doing at the end of the 90’s. Being able to handle the back-end and the front-end, really made for a perfect combination during my career.
I’ve been programming computers since I was 10 years old. I taught myself BASIC on a TRS-80 Model I back when they first came to market. BASIC was fun to learn, but it was very limited by the whopping 16K of RAM I had to work with. I couldn’t make much with it (and it was terribly slow), so my dad hired a Z-80 assembly language tutor to teach me the only other language available for the TRS-80. I didn’t quite “get it” with assembly language at first, until my tutor taught me the most important thing: How a computer actually works. Learning that, changed my perspective and it all just made sense after that, more or less.
Since then, I’ve gained a lot of experience both personally and in my career, programming and building websites and applications.
My education, however, was more focused on illustration and design than programming. In fact, I didn’t do any programming during my entire six years in college (I had a free ride in college because my stepmom was the math-science professor there, so I took full advantage of it!).
So, with an education in illustration and graphic design, but a love of programming, led me directly to building websites, which I started doing at the end of the 90’s. Being able to handle the back-end and the front-end, really made for a perfect combination during my career.
View some of my past and present work as a UI/UX Developer.
See a small sample of my artwork through the years.
Experience a few of the side projects I've worked on.
