Bio
I grew up in Rhode Island. I've always been a tinkerer kind of kid. Curious how stuff worked.. wasn't afraid of pulling stuff apart and figuring out what was going on. When I was 7 my family purchased its first computer, a Packard Bell Legend 22CD*. I instantly loved poking around in DOS and Windows 3.11. Two years later I made a phone call to Nintendo, asking them if I wanted to make video games, what I would have to learn. Whomever I was talking to told me that I needed to learn a language called C. On my next shopping trip with my mother to Ocean State Job Lot, I found a copy of Sam's Teach Yourself C in 24 hours for $7 that I nagged her to buy.

Long story short, while I didn't learn C to any useful level at that age, it did pique my interest in programming, and I went on to learn Javascript to a much more usable level. If you Google my name, a good majority of the hits will be on a small script I wrote and submitted to TheJavascriptSource when I was 14. It's a silly little thing that bounces an image around inside your browser window, stopping and resuming when you clicked on it. Anyway, sometime before I entered highschool, I read an article for Digipen in an issue of Nintendo Power (big fanboy back in those days) and became quite intrigued; I hadn't realized I could actually go to school for what I wanted to do. So I continued my studies in highschool before moving out west to attend DIT.

A dozen languages and nearly a decade of experience later, I'm a very capable developer with a lot to contribute to the gaming industry.

Other Interests
Still being the same tinkerer I was in the single-digit ages, I have several other interests outside the realm of programming. My biggest has to be cars and motorcycles. Since my first car ('90 Maxima), I've been a home mechanic from day one. Everything from oil changes to water pump and timing belt replacements I did on that car. Along the same thread, I'm an audiophile when it comes to car stereo. That same car I tore apart to install an aftermarket deck and 4 Kenwood Excelon (the pinnacle of my minimum wage budget) speakers around, and two 12" subs in the trunk. To this day I miss that car and its stereo. I own a '94 MX-5 nowadays, and while it's far more fun to drive, it'll never have the same system I had in my first ride.

I've been riding motorcycles ever since I got my driver's license. My father rode when I was young and I always loved them, so once I was of age I saved to buy a '98 Ninja 250R. 5 years on and I still own that bike, although now I own a slightly faster GSX-R1100 as well. I love riding and I'm always looking for new people to go riding with.

What's left? I'm a diehard Red Sox fan, making it to Fenway as often as I can. I'm looking into getting my amateur radio license when time and money allow. I like to play around with photography and writing when the urge beckons. Some of my work is available on this site for your persusal. All in all, I find myself pretty easy to get along with, and with a trivia-like knowledge of life (thanks to Wikipedia), I usually have something to contribute to every conversation.

Packard Bell Legend 22CD*

This beast was was 66MHz 486DX with 8MB of RAM. Also, from Wikipedia: "In 2005 PC World Magazine ranked the Packard Bell computers of 1986–1996 as the worst PCs manufactured of all time."