About
I wear many hats and strive to wear even more…
My Web Geek Hat: I have a long 10+ year history in web design and development with skills in information architecture, online strategy, branding, user interface design, and front-end programming (XHTML, CSS, Javascript, with a smattering of PHP and VBasic). I’ve worked in small web-shops (the ad-hoc group), huge internet firms (Proxicom), and in the wild jungles of freelance. Currently I am the web manager for the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center and the Bay Area Pediatric Surgeons.
My Art Punk Freak Hat: My parents are both artists and my educational background is mainly in art and illustration. I graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art with a BFA in Illustration in 1996, and then realizing that the world of of the freelance illustrator sucks, I promptly taught myself web design and ran off to San Francisco.
San Francisco… yeah I don’t have to say much about it. Here, I’ve been able to evolve my art punk freak creativity beyond anything I ever did before. From helping organize crazed events such as What’s Your Answer, the Buzzed Bee Spelling Bee and Stow Lake Pirate Battles to interactive sculpture/performances such as Crack Houses For Humanity to doing branding, signage, and graphics for art projects such as Dance Dance Immolation. Logos for oddball art projects has become one of my bailiwicks.
My Neuro Hat: I’m an avid devourer of all things brain and psychology related. A couple years ago, I decided to turn this knowledge into something more useful than cocktail party banter, and now I’m two years into getting a bachlors degree in psychology. From there I plan on continuing through to graduate school and hopefully a PhD in psychology specializing in neuropsychology.
My neuro hat and my web geek hat overlap slightly as I am especially interested in the use of online services for health care—especially as it applies to psychology, cognitive assessment, and rehabilitation. However, I’m still struggling to somehow fit my art punk freak hat in there somewhere.
Posts that explain a bit more about me
- Buckaroo Banzai :: Modern Renaissance Man - Still after all these years, Buckaroo Banzai is my role model.
- Question Authority? - a treatise on my own brand of punkassed scientific skepticism
