I am a Software Engineer who enjoys disrupting normal processes.
During late 1999, when Indiana University Bloomington banned the use of Napster on their network, I formed an organization called Students Against University Censorship. The organization was successful in lifting the Napster ban and helped start the media blitz around the company.
I quit school in 2000 to join San Francisco digital music startup Listen.com. While at Listen, I was part of a team that developed the first digital music subscription service, known as Rhapsody today.
After spending a year at Listen, I decided to move to Los Angeles to work in the "traditional" music industry. In 2001, I worked at Capitol Records, then quickly moved to Warner Bros. Records as the VP of New Media at Capitol took me along. There I served as the Director of New Media and worked on an innovative IM / MTV 2 campaign for Glassjaw, among other projects.
Shortly after deciding to return and finish my degree at Indiana University in 2003, I founded a software project called Warp Pipe. The project's aim was to enable LAN-based Nintendo GameCube games to be played across a wide area network (the internet). The project was successful in allowing all LAN-based GameCube titles to be played online and we were able to offer the software for PC, Mac, Linux, and BSD. The project was so successful, Warp Pipe met with Nintendo representatives during E3 2005. I strongly feel that Warp Pipe's philosophy helped shape Nintendo's online strategy for the Wii, the successor to the GameCube.
After graduating from Indiana University Bloomington with a degree in Behavioral Science, I moved to Chicago and began software consulting at various startup companies. I spent a year and a half writing web-based applications that were built on object oriented PHP and Javascript (AJAX).
While I enjoyed consulting, my desire to work in music was greater. In late 2005 I joined Chicago independent label Victory Records where I recently resigned as Director of New Media (February 2nd, 2007).
I am now CEO and co-founder of Warp Pipe Technologies, a privately owned independent video game startup based in Chicago.
My favorite film is Ghostbusters and I have run a Ghostbusters fan site since 1996. In fact, I am so obsessed I recently purchased a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Ambulance with the full intent to restore the car and create a replica of the Ecto-1.