Over the last year and a half I've been working on my first iOS & tvOS app called 1Glance.

For Home: My app allows you to build Custom Screens for your Apple TV that display News, Weather, Photos, Messages, and all kinds of other content that is meaningful to you.

For Parties: Take pictures of guests as they arrive and display them on your Living Room TV with their names, create teams and keep score for Game Night. Or just surprise your guests with a nice welcome message & pictures of past fun.

For Business: 1Glance lets you build Menus, General Info, Slideshows, Feature Bartenders & Staff, Drink Specials, and even create a Waiting List.

You can learn more at 1Glance.app.

Liquor.com was an editorial site for which I was the Senior Web Developer.

My day-to-day routine consisted of:

• Building custom WordPress plugins to support new content
• Bringing Photoshop and workflow mockups to life as fully-responsive sites in CSS/HTML/Javascript
• Creating new themes for site refreshes
• Building APIs for 3rd-Party access
• Maintaining AWS / RDS services
• Building and maintaining Github repositories
• Troubleshooting bugs and new features
• Documenting features for editorial and sales
• Daily Stand-ups to work through any blockers
• Collaborations through Jira / Slack / Google Hangouts

The site was based on WordPress with an additional custom database used to store ancillary information related to the cocktail business.

Almost everything was a custom post type and I wrote several custom plugins in my 7 years there to do everything from drag-and-drop mosaics to bartender profiles.

In Oct 2019 Liquor.com was acquired by DotDash.

I had the opportunity to produce more than twenty sites based on our custom CMS that was written specifically for cocktail recipe contests.

I was responsible for building the fully responsive front end websites which were to match the clients branding, but they all basically worked the same.

Welcome Page, Profile Page, one or two entry Pages, and a Confirmation Page. Another engineer developed the dashboard backend so judges and clients could log in and view the entries and choose a winner for the contests.

ADITIVE enables advertisers to infuse social sharing directly into their online promotions. Coupons, Giftcards, Sweepstakes... Whatever advertisers are offering, our white-label platform allows them to build and deploy a social sharing promotion in a matter of minutes.

In return, they get a rich set of analytics detailing the engagements and conversions which transformed what was basically a standard click-thru ad campaign.

Our extensive (and well documented) API allows social sharing through "ad flips", overlays, iFrames, Facebook Fan Pages, or even a stand-alone web site.

Aditive is VC funded by Metamorphic Ventures and X/Seed Capital Management. There are fewer than 10 of us doing the heaving lifting and it's been the most rewarding start-up I've every worked with. I am very proud to be a part of an amazing team!

In April 2010, Todd Parsons (my co-founder from BuzzLogic) contacted me about a new company he and Eugene Abovsky were working on. Both Todd and Eugene have extensive experience and understanding of the Online Ad Networks and they wanted to find a way to incorporate the emerging social sharing technologies.

They needed a UI designer/coder who could help mock up the product and create a brand around the concept.

A few months later, we got some office space and set up ShopSocial, Inc.

The timing was perfect because Facebook Connect and other competing technologies were just starting to gain acceptance, so we attached them to a social selling metaphor and were aiming to become a destination site for great deals that people would want to share.

However, it soon became clear that brands wanted more control of the experience and a simple "template" metaphor was not going to cut it.

We re-focused our efforts to create a white-label solution for our customers and re-branded the company as ADITIVE in July 2011.

Definition Studios was a great company to work for. It's a full service media solutions provider and I was brought on board to help with their backend coding and design. Most of my work involved PHP and the Zend Framework, but I also did a little MySQL coding.

Each of the three partners, Rob DiCiuccio, Evan Rusackas, Ryan Wilcoxson are amazingly talented and their skill sets mesh together so perfectly. Rob is a brilliant coder and designer, Evan is amazing at UI and Design, and Ryan is an excellent video producer.

I loved working for them, because they were always at the cusp of emerging technologies and pushing the limits beyond the standard. It was a great place to work and you would be hard-pressed to find a media service bureau with a broader scope of knowledge and talent!

In 2004, Bob Ellis introduced me to Todd Parsons. They had a database of proprietary information that they needed to build a framework around. I set up a server, then designed and coded up a secure-access website for them. It was a quick contract, but it afforded me enough time to realize that Todd & I had a great symbiotic working relationship. Todd had the connections and the business savvy to give rise to unique and marketable ideas. I had the tech savvy to make them happen.

In this case, the idea was a unique and easy-to-use client marketing management tool with powerful tracking and analytics. Taking the knowledge I'd gained from ClickNDrop, I coded it up in PHP/MySQL and a few short weeks later we launched BuzzLogic, Inc.

We landed a few major clients (including Microsoft to facilitate their developer program communications) and things were going smoothly, but a great opportunity soon arose. Another company of Todd's was working on determining influence in the emerging technology of social media of blogs.

Blogs were just becoming popular and it was clear that they would play a key role in the online landscape. What if we could measure the influence blogs had in specific areas and use that information to channel more effective advertising? Then use BuzzLogic's existing technology to build and maintain the relationships with the blogs.

With that, BuzzLogic became a two-tiered powerhouse, and we landed $9.6 Million in VC Funding to build the business. After hiring a few more engineers, my duties focused more on interface and UI, as well as the marketing site.

By 2008 BuzzLogic was a big, bustling company and I was ready to move on to something new.

They exist today as Twelve Fold Media

I co-founded ClickNDrop with Alan Brooks, a former employer.

The idea was simple: Small businesses needed a reliable solution for emailing business correspondence to their customers, such as newsletters, activations, billing reminders, and such... Not millions of messages, only a few hundred.

ClickNDrop featured pre-formatted templates and an on-screen editor for creating newsletters, emails, and other content so users didn't need to know HTML or any coding to quickly create what they needed.

The software was coded in PHP with a MySQL database.

I was hired at CaseCentral to basically be their webmaster. They had a product and existing website, but no single person to be in charge of it. I worked closely with the Director of Marketing, Alan Brooks, to create a professional website and focused message.

Soon I found myself doing other work for the company such as branding, interface design, and interactive elements for the product. They are still using the logo and much of the branding Alan and I created!

I left CaseCentral due to company restructuring.

I was hired at eCoverage as one of their Web Developers and worked closely with an existing team to support their PHP-based installation. It was great to work with a big team of talented programmers.

Unfortunately, eCoverage was a victim of the Dot.Com bust. After only a few months there, I walked into work one day and each person was given their last paycheck and let go.

After taking a brief hiatus from work, I serendipitously ran into my old boss at XOOM.com, Bob Ellis. He was on the board of directors at Convene.com and they needed someone to overhaul their website. I was excited to be contracted for the job.

I was less excited to find out that they wanted it coded in .NET. :(

Nonetheless, I didn't let it phase me. I hadn't coded in .NET before, but that's never stopped me from learning a new language. A few short weeks later, I had the website up and running.

In summer 1998, I was contacted by a company in San Francisco that was impressed by my artwork and animations that I'd created on my personal website. They were selling a CD-ROM of internet clip-art and they contracted me to build some for them. Later that year they offered me a job to be their webmaster in San Francisco. I was their 15th employee.

XOOM.com was an internet start-up whose business model was to give away free home page hosting, and in return they used that relationship to market products and offers to their users. By 1999, they had over 200 employees and, like many internet start-ups, they went public.

In 2000, they merged with another internet startup, called Snap.com, to form a new company called NBCi.com to become NBC's interactive portal to their customers. Unfortunately, it was a bit too ahead of its time. There just weren't enough broadband customers to consume video content, and like many dot.coms at that time, their value plummeted and they closed up shop.

I left XOOM.com just before the merger. I believe that my broad range of skills are a better fit with a smaller team where I can be more effective across multiple disciplines, rather than being pigeonholed as "the designer" or "the engineer".

In 1997 General Internet launched The Mining Company as a destination site where you could find experts on just about any topic.

I was hired to be their original Web Design Guide where I wrote weekly tutorials and articles about Web Site Technology and HTML.

It was a job I enjoyed immensely, but because of my impending move to San Francisco, I had to give it up and concentrate on my fulltime work.

General Internet became About.com, which later became DotDash.com

I knew I wanted to stay in the Desktop Publishing industry, so when I moved back to Minneapolis, I went right to the largest Service Bureau and was hired as their 2nd Shift LinoType operator.

Mostly it was preparing and printing PageMaker & QuarkXPress documents for pre-press production, but soon I was doing layout and design work for customers.

I quickly became the company guru for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and QuarkXPress. My specialties were color-trapping, file trouble-shooting, and PostScript trouble-shooting.

I also did a lot of training for the resident typesetters, to help them transition from the old LinoType terminals to QuarkXPress. I was promoted to Director of Training & Development, training in new employees and helping existing employees learn new software and new equipment.

By the end of my 9 years with ASAP, I had established an internet presence for them and was helping them exploit the [then] new technology!

I did basically the same thing at Fox Printing that I did at AlphaGraphics, but Fox Printing was more of mom-and-pop shop and I liked the laid back atmosphere there better. They also saw a lot more worth to my skills as a typesetter, designer, and pioneer in the Desktop Publishing industry and I credit them majorly for giving me the freedom to push the envelope. At this time, no one had even considered doing color separations or trapping on a Macintosh and I was doing this successfully and considerably cheaper than traditional methods.

I moved to Phoenix, Arizona for a short stint and used my Macintosh experience to land a job in the emerging Desktop Publishing industry. I was very familiar with a "new" program called PageMaker and Apple had just released their "LaserWriter" printer and a few pre-press companies were tinkering with them to see how they would work in production.

I was in charge of their service area where people would come in with their floppy disks and rent time on the Macintosh computers as a pay-per-page service to print to the LaserWriters.

It was at this time that I got ahold of beta versions of Adobe Photoshop 1.0 and Adobe Illustrator 1.0 and quickly mastered both programs.

Unfortunately, the management of the place saw the Mac as more of a hobbyist niche and didn't want to venture further than that. I saw it as the future of publishing.