Experience

I started becoming intimate with computers in the early 80s, mainly with apple II, then Mac, and later on to other systems.

In the mid 90's, I gained employment working in computer media labs. Eventually managing a media lab for faculty research in art and design. Unfortunately the lab was closed due to budget constrains a couple years after the tech bubble burst on everyone. I hope to return to this line of work one day.

I've used primarily apple platforms for 29 years. However, with the changes to the mac platform with the Lion MacOS (10.7), I can no longer recommend apple products in good conscience. I understand many still like them and I will continue to support them for some time, but they are purley consumer products now. For professionals and people who need to get work done they are becoming largely useless. Also, the move to the cloud is another way to remove us from control of our own data and is strangely like the old IBM systems that apple was intended to replace, giving control of computers over to the user instead of dumb terminals which stored everything on a mainframe.

I've been doing web design and development since the mid 90's. However I've been moving away from the design end of things as i find it quite difficult to translate the clients abstract thoughts about how they would like a website to look into a website design that pleases them. I leave this to the designers now and focus on translating the design into a functioning website.