I graduated a Music Major with a Minor in Applied Mathematics, which translated means I switched majors and wanted two years of Electrical Engineering to count for something. In my final year of college I discovered IRC and Pine-mail, which allowed me to communicate with other students I had met on the road while traveling with my a cappella group without a ridiculous phone bill or stamps.
Before leaving college I bought my first computer, a Macintosh G3 tower with a 3GB hard drive, and started building a cappella websites. I would spend hours a day, browsing sites and communicating with people from around the world who shared my passion. Email and newsgroups were my primary forms of communication. I stated working with php and MySQL,, while venturing into digital video editing, translating what I could do with sound wave forms into manipulating frames.
Over the past year, I have taken a special interest in virtual worlds, and specifically SecondLife. It’s my intersection of video, audio, animation, im and voice chat. I’ve even started an a cappella group, made up of members from three continents.
Twelve years and 90+ technologies later, I get to teach other people how to use rich media applications and social software at a small liberal arts college in Vermont. This helps, as my wife’s family owns an apple orchard and farm market about one hour north of here. Quite literally, our roots are here.