About Me

I'm a dad, a Marine, a software developer, and a bicycle tourist.

I was raised and still live in Cincinnati, Ohio. I work at Launch Scout, a business consultancy specialzed in custom software development that I co-founded in 2009.

After high school and a short stint at the University of Cincinnati I enlisted in the Marines and served as an Aviation Support Equipment Technician attached to the Flight Line Division of VMFA-122. I served mostly in the continental US but was deployed to the US Naval Base at Roosevelt Roads and participated in a NATO exercise while deployed to Bodø, Norway.

After the Marines I was hired as a Customer Service Agent (baggage handler/ramp agent) for Delta Air Lines and had another slightly longer stint at UC. After two years I worked my way into Technical Operations as a Mechanic's Helper (non-licensed aircraft mechanic).

Shortly thereafter I began playing hockey recreationally. During a game I broke my collarbone. I was sat behind a desk and charged with organizing aircraft tooling. IBM 386 workstations had just started popping up around the company. So I taught myself Visual Basic and database programming in dBASE IV.

Eventually, my code writing skills became more valuable than my aircraft maintenance skills. I was tasked with writing Key Performance Indicators (KPI) reports. Much to my chagrin, when it was decided my reports were to be used system wide their development was assigned to a business analyst and I was soon back in my old role of aircraft maintenance; often soaked in Skydrol with my ROYCO 22MS grease stained hands longing for the keyboard.

I decided to return to UC and this time earned a degree in Computer Science with a minor in French. Upon graduating I was hired by Cincinnati Children's Hospital as a Software Developer. My boss accepted an invitation to host a local group of XP developers. There I met the colleagues with whom I would co-found Launch Scout but not before moving on to SCRIP-SAFE where I helped develop the first commercial Electronic Transcript service.

After working as a freelance developer for a while and launching a personal finance app, called BudgetSketch. I also co-founded CincyCoworks, the city's first coworking space. We founded Launch Scout in 2009, as "Gaslight Software" in the Cincinnati office of Columbus, Ohio based software consultancy, EdgeCase. You can check out some of our code on GitHub and our rep on Clutch.