I live in Billerica, Massachusetts with my wonderful wife Elsa Elliott.
I'm a Web developer. I was once a laser physicist, a biophysicist, and a semiconductor manufacturing engineer -- but not all at the same time.
I have a parrot named Ptolemy. (He thinks the world revolves around him.)
I write a blog, and I play the banjo.
In my ideal world, I would have a milling machine, a wood shop, an electronics lab, a recording studio, a vegetable garden, a kayak, a wood-fired pizza oven, a garage with a lift, a homemade fuel-efficient sports car, a piano, and a pool table — and I would know how to use them all. I'm working on it.
Development of database-backed Web applications using:
Proficient: Ruby, PHP, Javascript and jQuery, CSS, HTML/XHTML, SQL, Perl, Git/Subversion/CVS, Emacs Lisp, Linux and Mac OS X system administration.
Formerly Proficient (but haven't used in ~5 years): Tcl, Oracle PL/SQL.
Novice: Java, C, LabView, VBScript.
Principal Developer, Literate Devices, Inc, Billerica, MA
December 2007 – present
Research Scientist, Science Research
Laboratory, Inc., Somerville, MA
March 2006 – October 2007
Research Fellow, Massachusetts
General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
March 2003 – March 2006
Product Engineer, Agilent
Technologies, Semiconductor Products Group, Newark, CA
Dec 2000 – March 2003
Software Developer, ArsDigita
Corporation, Cambridge, MA
April 2000 – November 2000
Graduate Research Assistant,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
October 1995 – March 2000
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio