My professional experiences run the gamut in technology. While my educational background started in biomedical engineering, I started my professional career in application development with a focus in health care. That shifted to IT management and a jump into media technology.

On the side, I've been playing around with government data writing code to populate databases and building APIs and websites from them. The main project is a mashup of Campaign Spending Commission, Ethics Commission and Office of Elections data into https://brchawaii.com/influence. Ultimately the goal is to push for more transparency in government and showing what open data initiatives can do for the the community.

Burt Lum, Ryan Ozawa and I have recently started a non-profit called Hawaii Open Data to push these open data initiatives forward. We are currently working with the City & County of Honolulu and the State of Hawaii to develop not only the technological infrastructure, but more importantly community adoption.