The About Me page is always the most interesting to read on websites. It is like a psychology study on that person; the actual content is usually of secondary interest. Because you are here to find out about me professionally I will stick to that topic.

My Web Development Origins

In 2000 I joined a market research firm as a project manager and ended up working on the first web-survey project in the nation. While there I started coding in a C based language and eventually started messing around with HTML and CSS.

A Break In The Journey

My web development life got put on hold in 2002 when I started law school at Boston University. I spent the next four years doing little with the internet while I studied law and planned to be an attorney. Thankfully, upon graduation, I quickly became disillusioned with the whole profession, thought up a great web-application, secured some venture capital, and in 2006 I was back on track as a web developer.

STARTright – Finish Social

By 2007 I was in full development mode and living in Utah. STARTright-LLC.com was the application, and I was developing with a team of eight. I was thrilled to be back coding again. I branched out to real coding during the STARTright development process and spent most of 2007 and 2008 buried in PHP code to create the application. By early 2009 STARTright-llc.com was up and viable, and I started marketing it with great success.

Keep Doing What You Love

After STARTright was up and going I had to decide what was next. I did not want to practice law again, and I had the tools to help business owners design, develop, market and socialize their products. More importantly, I had actually created a large web application from conception (start) to deployment (finish) to success (marketing = money). Most web development and promotion consultants had never actually done it themselves. I decided to go out on my own and do this as a free lance adviser and developer.

How It Ended

As freelance developer and web business consultant I have had the opportunity to develop large scale applications as well as small family business sites/blogs. I have consulted start-ups on the technologies they will need, the online marketing they should do and the design and development people they should hire. I love it all. From design to development to teaching clients how to become successful on the web, it is a lot of fun. And that is what work should be.