Hello! Thanks for wanting to know more about me.

(And thank you to Robert Paul for the gracious permission to use his work as my cover photo for this page.)

I live in the St. Louis metro area with my wife and five children. My wife is the most amazing woman on the planet. Most of my children are adults now. They have grown to be responsible and kind human beings.

I work in customer experience at Automattic.

My full-time work is in helping customers at WordPress.com VIP unlock the full potential of our hosted WordPress platform. I have been at Automattic since 2010, and I enjoy it more each day. I get to work with amazing, intelligent people and work on solutions that actively make online publishing and the work of our customers easier and more effective. You should consider applying to work with me.

I’ve been staffing Combo Breaker since 2016, Frosty Faustings since 2018, and Evo since 2019. In that work, I’ve had many responsibilities, including tournament organizing, large-scale bracket running, large tournament logistics, coordination of over 300 staff members, volunteer security, audio/visual setup, and assistant broadcast direction.

I’d love to help you with your event if you’re interested. Please contact me if you’d like to talk.

I believe in open source.

I’ve been working with open source projects for many years, and believe open source is important to our technological future. I have been working with WordPress for well over a decade, and whenever possible, I use toolchains that are almost completely open source.