Professional Background

Vgg llc, Chicago	Partner	01.02013 - present
Founded a small manufacturing partnership, specializing in commercial and residential work, and kinetic theater.
1500, Chicago	Co-op Partner	01.02001 - 12.02012
portfolio Designing and building fine furniture, commercial and residential built-ins and store fixtures, and a luthier.
Columbia College, Chicago	Adjunct Professor	01.02001 - 06.02001
Introduction to Design For Electronic Media class notes Taught an overview class on design and new media to junior and senior art & design students. The primary goal was to provide a solid grounding in various aspects of information & web page design and site architecture, as well as a basic understanding of the medium itself.
CollectTheRent.com	Co-Founder & CEO	05.01999 - 08.02000
Electronic Rent Payment and Processing Founded an e-commerce Internet company. Oversaw business development, drafted business plan, managed client and business relations, and raised over $500K of initial capital. Also served as chief technology architect for the secure gnu/linux-based C2B transaction system.
Dovetail Web Design	Owner	08.01995 - present
Strategic Consulting, Information Architecture, Web Design /tech/ Design and develop web sites, and provide strategic technology consulting on a project basis; projects have ranged from one month to two years. Help businesses define problems, architect software and systems, and build project teams to implement solutions, with a strong focus on information design.
Dovetail Custom Furniture	Sole Proprietor	08.01992 - present
Custom Furniture Design and Fabrication, Luthier /furniture Design and build high-end modern custom furniture, using wood and occasional metals. Also produce a limited number of acoustic classical guitars.
Tom Doody & Associates	Account Executive	07.01990 - 05.01992
Public Relations & Event Management Handled public relations, event management and release parties for a variety of clients, including ad agencies, photographers, restaurants and nightclubs. Also served as network and database guru for the office.
Marshall Fields & Company	Copywriter	02.01988 - 06.01990
Advertising Found hundreds of creative ways to say 10% off on thousands of interesting household items and appliances.
Arthur Andersen	Staff Consultant	12.01986 - 03.01988
Computer Consulting, Recruiting Worked primarily on a project to develop an object-oriented operating system for Intel. Subsequently helped oversee recruiting for internal technical services.
Purdue Tandem VandeGraaph Nuclear Accelerator		01985 - 01986
Atom Smashing Helped operate Purdue's Tandem VandeGraaph Nuclear Accelerator, smashed atoms into all kinds of things! Talk about a lot of buttons....

Education

University of Illinois, Champaign		08.01983 - 12.01986
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Dean's List, James Scholar.
Player's Workshop of the Second City		07.01987 - 08.01988
I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be funny. Turns out there's nothing funny about trying to be an actor. Now I know why clowns have to paint on their smiles.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technical Strategy and Architecture, Information Design, and implementation - programming and development (java, perl, javascript, html) and back-end integration. Familiar with GNU/Linux, Windows and Macintosh OS's.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

I love to travel ( 32 countries, 4 continents and counting.... ), hike, bike, camp, ski, climb. I read way too much, live with medium-sized dog, can ride a unicycle, and am a confirmed eclipse-chaser. Generally believe nothing's too dangerous to try at least once, twice if it's worth it.