About

I'm a programmer, musician, entrepeneur, and hardware hacker in Portland, Oregon. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles and moved to Portland to attend Reed College in the late nineties. After a few years of supporting myself with fancy food service jobs while playing music, I learned how to program in Ruby and quit my day job to become a web programming contractor using Ruby on Rails. Since the start of 2007, I've worked full time with Chris on Grabb.it from coffee shops around southeast Portland.

Here's some of the stuff I do:

Things and Groups

  • Grabb.it: Music search engine and mp3 blog community, I co-founded. What I do all day.
  • At Dusk: Indie rock band with two friends from high school that's been together for almost 10 years. We're working on our fourth record now.
  • PDX Pop Now!: Non-profit organization dedicated to advancing access to music in Portland, Oregon. We put on an annual three-day free all-ages music festival of all local music and put out a double disc compilation as well as putting on shows in local middle and high schools. I've been on the board since the founding in 2004.
  • Bottlecap Labs: A bunch of smart geeks in Portland who meet once a week to hack on cool random ideas. Our first public project is ZombieURL RAWWWWR.
  • Dorkbotpdx: "People doing strange things with electricity" in Portland, Oregon.
  • Music For Dozens: Like Flickr for music; anyone can upload music they made, share it around the web in our flash widget, and sell it for download or on CD.

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