autobiografia

I was born in northeastern Ohio near Lake Erie. I studied a mix of literature, psychology, math, and history at Miami University and the University of Illinois. I am an INTJ and an ovo-lacto vegetarian who makes occasional lapses for sushi. I moved to the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the century for its forests and rivers. I am father to Dante and partner to Laure.

Solving problems

Pragmatism, flexibility of method, order without rigidity, data-driven decision making, and esprit de corps are common threads in my work. I’ve diverse skills in UX, business analysis, development, QA, much project management, and company operations. I remain a curious and adaptive expert generalist.

I dwell at the intersection of data analysis and business intelligence, software development, operations, and team leadership. I brake for unusual maps, a teammate needing help, pedestrians in the bicycle lane, and work that is innovative and full of challenge. Here’s my resume.

Some favorite tools are XFCE or KDE as desktop environment and JIRA or LiquidPlanner for all things production. I prefer Manjaro as a rolling release distribution and the triad of Python, pandas and seaborn for analysis. I’m digging deeper with scikit-learn, Elasticsearch, and the occasional Raspberry Pi project.

things I like

I like running west at dusk, reading speculative fiction, and tracking developments in data science, cognitive psychology, game theory, and open source software. I abandoned brewing beer in favor of making mead.

I am an avid player of mainly European board games that involve economies of production, territories and technology trees, variable player powers, and multiple paths to victory. Favorites include Trajan, Tzolk’in: The Mayan Calendar, Through the Ages, Teotihuacan: City of Gods, Race for the Galaxy, and The Oracle of Delphi.

I prefer two wheeled vehicles. I ride a 1996 BMW R1100RS. For human-powered transportation, I move between a late 1990s bonded aluminum Alan cyclocross-er with a flip-flop single-speed hub and a bombproof chromoly 1980s Nishiki racer. I’ve been over the handlebars twice in dramatic fashion — just on bicycle.