Part memoir and part learning-in-public, this website is a glimpse of where I am today and how I got here. I started it after I got laid off as a way to work through what should be on my resume. I realized, however, that I am so much more than my resume.
That said, I do have some themes — I enjoy puzzles, experimentation, and figuring out better different ways to do things. I don’t enjoy managing others, preferring to lead by example.
As an employee, I tend to get pulled into work that doesn’t fit neatly into a role—putting order around real problems, improving capacity and flow, and building systems that continue to work after the initial push is over. I’ve worked in companies large and small, in engineering, back-office, research and development, and ownership.
As an artist, my subjects tend toward mathematical and/or minimalist representations of everyday things, and are often abstract. My undogmatic, irreverent, and often self-referential work balances process and message, exposing a high degree of hands on work and experimentation. If there is a “red thread” through my work, it would be represented by the acronym HATCHES (Handwork, Algorithm, Text, Chaos, Humor, Experimentation, Simplicity), which describes how I go about making my art.
As a dork, I like messing around with computery stuff but I am not a programmer.
All of this is likely to show up on this site.
Eventually I’ll even have my resume finished?
