Work

(mt) Media Temple
Director of Technology
06/05 to present.

Director of Operations
06/03 to 06/05.

Freelance Author and Developer
11/01 to 06/03.

Lucid Designs
Co-Founder & CTO
08/97 to 11/01.

Fox
DTV Engineer
10/97 to 04/99.

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Skills

Linux, RHCE
Windows 95 / 98 / NT / 2000 / XP
C/C++
Java
Perl
MySQL
PHP
SQL
XML/XSL/XSLT
Cold Fusion
Apache
Probably a few others too...

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Education

B.S. Physics with Highest Honors and Distinction - UNC-CH
Paul E. Shearin Undergraduate Physics Award
Golden Key National Honor Society

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Publications

• I was co-author on a paper about black holes.
• I wrote a chapter on how to use XML and PHP for this book.
• I then wrote a bunch of chapters about PHP and XML for this book.
• The next book was about using PHP 4 and Databases.
• My most recent book details the complete construction of an application driven website using PHP and MySQL.
• I was a code editor for a few books about javascript.

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Other

I read a lot of Tolkien and Steinbeck.
I play my guitars as often as I can.
I made it onto Ante's wall.