Hi. I’m an entrepreneur, blogger, technology consultant and community builder living in Richmond, Indiana, USA.
I was born in 1977, and have lived most of my life in the Midwestern United States. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Earlham College. I’m married to my wonderful partner Kelly.
I’m the principal of Summersault LLC, a website development firm headquartered in Richmond. Since I co-founded it in 1997, the firm continues to grow as it works with a variety of organizations to build highly customized database driven websites. Summersault’s mission is “to build and sustain communities using the technologies of the Internet.“
This mission also reflects my personal interests as I work with a number of alternative media projects, sustainability movements, and community building organizations. I’m focused on finding innovative, creative and fun ways for humans to communicate more effectively and live better together in ways that nurture strong, authentic, self-reliant communities.
Other past and present interests and hobbies include magic performance and juggling, flying small aircraft, radio DJing and podcast hosting, writing newspaper columns, travel, Perl programming, video production, politics, mediation and conflict resolution, customer service best practices, organic gardening, conference facilitation and organizing, public speaking and people watching.
I write in the blog on this site about these topics and more; you can read my signature blog posts.
I’m available to speak about a variety of technical and cultural topics to audiences of all sizes. If you’d like me to speak to your group, organization or business, please get in touch.
Affiliations
In the interest of full disclosure and to promote the organizations and projects with which I’m involved, I’m posting this list of my personal and professional affiliations:
- I’m the Principal of Summersault, LLC, a website development firm I co-founded
- I’m a board member at the Wayne County Foundation
- I’m a member of the Indiana University East School of Humanities and Social Sciences Board of Advisors
- I’m a volunteer member of the Palladium-Item‘s editorial advisory board
- I’m the creator of the community improvement idea repository at RichmondBrainstorm.com
- I’m a volunteer and former board president at the Clear Creek Food Cooperative
- I’m a proud graduate of Earlham College, a member of the College’s Alumni Council, and have occasionally taught there (Robotics in May 2003 and Software Engineering in Spring 2006)
- I’m the editor of the community news website ProgressiveWayneCounty.org
- I was an unsuccessful candidate for an At Large seat on the Richmond Indiana Common Council in 2011
- I’m a former board member and board president of WayNET.org
- I was a member of the Creative Industries Task Force in Richmond
- I’m a co-owner of Summersault Properties, LLC
- I’m the owner of Silverback Adventures, LLC
