I recently married my best friend, Rena. We have a lot in common. The Venn diagram of music interests is pretty similar, although my favorite music is Four Tet and hers The Smashing Pumpkins. We share a deep love for soccer, the Brewers, the Packers and gardening. It can be excessively annoying when people gloat about pets online, but I admit we have a cat we love a lot.

I graduated from Carroll University in 2007, and am interested in design, technology, economics, maps, communications, music, spy thrillers, chess, cooking, and fly fishing. I serve on an advisory board at Carroll to help enhance the art and design programs there.

Since March of 2007, I have been a contributing innovator at HarQen, an intelligent voice services provider located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I love my work, my team, and our shared vision.

I design interfaces and lead front-end development. I'm also responsible for managing and directing our two primary products, Voice Advantage, which received the "Top HR Product of 2010" award from HR Executive magazine, and Symposia.

I have led or supported the following projects:

Dayda — A tiny daily data tracking application. Delightfully simple data input combined with gorgeous charts. Built on Python/Django/Postgres/Heroku with Matt Stockton and Jesse Vogt.

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Nodal — Visually explore your network graph. A D3.js experiment built with Matt Stockton and Jesse Vogt.

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Symposia — Conference calling with a synchronized web session, providing participants with a way to take notes tied to a recording. A break-through approach to how people interact with recorded conversations. Built at HarQen.

Take a tour of Symposia

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Voice Advantage — Automated phone interviews for HR and Staffing professionals. A novel product that created a new, booming market: virtual interviewing. Built at HarQen.

Visit Voice Advantage

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Blurbs — Conversation wrapper for the web, like an audio version of Disqus. Winner of a 2011 hackathon with Matt Stockton.

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Dillon The Villain — Transmedia storytelling property produced by Matt Sabljak from 2008-2011. I built a conceptual prototype for how stories can be told in HTML. The project is presently unavailable.