Southern Worcester County, MA
- involved in graphic design since 1986 (remember CompuGraphic systems? How 'bout Illustrator '88?)
- attended New England Tech for Computer Programming (BASIC, COBOL and RPG-II), but I learned more hanging out in the library on my own time (LISP, ADA, FORTRAN, Pascal, etc)
- Decided I didn't like computers as much as I thought I did, wandered through a few different fields
- Got back into typesetting / graphic layout in 1992, doing ad-rags in northeastern Connecticut
- Learned the basics of IT, became an IT consultant for graphic design shops around New England
- Started HTML/CSS in 1997, javascript in 1999
- Attended the first jQueryCon (still have the T-shirt!), part of jQuery's original beta-test community.
- Became enamored of design patterns in scripted languages (particularly PHP and javascript)
- Working with CakePHP and (lately) Yii on the back-end and with Backbone.js / Marionette on the front