Pleasure to meet you.
I was born outside of Boston but I'm not gonna tell you when. Suffice to say I'm old enough to know better.
I was a musician in my teens and 20's and that's how I got into interactive design—my bandmates wanted a website. There weren't a lot of band sites out there at the time, but we came across a fancy iframed number from a band called Samiam and decided we wanted something like that.
After exploring Geocities, Tripod, and other early site builders, I decided the only way to get something decent was to start from scratch. That's when I discovered right-click > View source. I did some reverse engineering and launched a (pretty terrible) site a few weeks later. Pretty soon, I was making sites for other bands, clubs and venues, local restaurants… any gig I could find.
I started my career "proper" as a web developer at Putnam Investments, making internal sites for companies like Coca-Cola, Nissan, and Briggs and Stratton. Then, in 2003, I moved to LA and began developing sites for Nestle at an agency called McElroy. Pretty soon, it became apparent that I was a better designer than developer, so I made the jump. (CSS? Yes. C#.net? Not so much.).
Since then, I helped launch startup or two, spent seven years (and earned 11 patents) at Google, redesigned YouTube, began designing and building making furniture, created a design system called clear, got a couple cats, and had an awkward encounter with Steve Jobs (I'll tell you all about it some day).
