About

I moved to San Francisco in 1994, discovered the internet in 1996, and immediately became obsessed with the incredible communications and marketing potential of this (then) brand-new medium. I taught myself HTML, Photoshop, and Illustrator over the summer and began building websites, landing my first full-time development job for a small firm in South San Francisco called TotalNet (now defunct).

In the intervening years, I have worked as a one-man web department for a private equity company called Fremont Group (1999-2006), a project consultant for the USF School of Law (2007), and the marketing webmaster for a Silicon Vallery software development company called SuccessFactors (2008).

I’m an expert-level user of most major graphic design and web development software packages and languages and am particularly skilled at : 1) quickly assessing the least expensive and fastest way to establish a presence on the web and then 2) using a combination of Open Source (i.e., free) blog and CMS platforms and premium themes and/or templates to build out a site fully integrated with third-party social functionality, e.g., blogs, stores, forums, twitter, youtube, flickr and gmail accounts.

I am available for freelance work, so if you need a professional site built in a hurry, please do contact me! I am fully acquainted with and knowledgeable about all aspects of domain and hosting acquisition, project management, site planning and builds and “guerilla” (i.e. free) promotion and would be pleased to put together a package that will meet your needs.

As a former teacher both in the U.S. and abroad, I am also familiar with and enjoy training users on the ins and outs of WordPress, Joomla and similar platforms so that they can maintain their sites themselves.