About
About Me
I am a web-developer living and working in Calgary, Alberta for Critical Mass. Some of the clients I’ve worked for include Rolex, Hyatt, Albertson’s, Dell, Panasonic and Budweiser. Currently I’m a developer working on the AT&T account working on a variety of projects for their global site AT&T.com. My background includes being a Systems Analyst for Enerflex Systems in Calgary and a Java Developer for Avue Technologies in Victoria.
Originally from Victoria, B.C., I started out as a student/musician trying to either get a degree in Geography (I liked the science of earthquakes and glaciology) or become a professional musician. Having chosen the musical path, I played in a couple of touring bands and opened for Wide Mouth Mason at the pinnacle of my career with my band “Fan Tan Alley.” I do still play drums on a regular basis and would love the chance to play with another band at some point.
Realizing that making it as a band was akin to winning the lottery, I went back to school and studied to be an IT professional. After many certification exams (…useless by the way) and a high-intensity, two-year-course in software development (…very useful!) I finally made my way to Calgary during the boom of 2005.
I have always enjoyed writing about and (drinking) micro-brewed beer and intend to take an online course this year in brewing from the Siebel Institute in Chicago. I have attended the Great Canadian Beer Festival in Victoria almost every year since 1997 and have seen first hand the explosive growth of the Micro-brewing industry in Western Canada. I would love to create my own micro-brews at home and perhaps one day enter one in the home-brewing championships!! Until then I’ll keep trying the latest creations from some of my favorites like Driftwood Brewing and Vancouver Island Brewery in Victoria.
About This Site
This website runs Wordpress, PHP, AJAX, CSS, MySQL, jQuery, Prototype, Flickr API, Twitter API, Facebook API, Linked-In API as well as a whole bunch of other fun widgets, sidebars and sliders that make the site work. It is hosted at iPowerweb on a Red Hat Linux Server in beautiful Boston, Massachusetts.