#title: Who am I? Why am I here? site_title: true

I live in Chicago but have spent most of my life in Western New York. There's some quality to Rust Belt cities that just calls to me.

I have a passion for electronics and computers that I discovered after I'd already gone to school for Political Science and Economics. I hope to one day get a job that uses my degree, but no luck so far. In the meantime, I've made a decent living through a series of jobs that I was in no way qualified for. Just In Time learning has become a staple of my career.

My current side projects are:

• fleshing out my personal wiki with helpful documentation for statistical programming and server administration, as well as transcribing my old college notes
• a terminal app for controlling both MPD and the Spotify Connect API, a la ncmpcpp or ncspot
• dead-simple but high-security internet chat

I'm also passionate about international history and culture. I studied Japanese for three years and spent a semester in Nagoya. My wife and I have a terrible habit of planning international backpacking vacations that have to be canceled at the last minute due to closed borders.

If you're looking to hire someone with a weird mixture of programming work experience and econometrics training, take a look at my CV.