About

analyst • board-gamer • buddhist • cyclist • doer • father • gardener • guitarist • humanist • leader • lifter • minimalist • motorcyclist • pragmatist • reader • romantic • skeptic • stargazer • stoic • swimmer • sysadmin • systems-thinker • vegetarian • writer • zymurgist

I was born in northeast Ohio near Lake Erie. I studied a mix of literature, psychology, math, and history at Miami University and the University of Illinois.

I am a reluctant INTJ. Enneagram tendencies are 6w5. My CVI profile yields banker/innovator. OCEAN favors conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. I also hold that all models (and personality frameworks) are wrong and some are useful.

I am an ovo-lacto vegetarian who makes a very occasional lapse for sushi and who considers veggie phở to be the best soup. I moved to the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the century for its forests and rivers.

I am a father to Dante.

Work

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 user experience, analysis, development, quality assurance, project management, IT and engineering leadership, and operations. ...

Play

I like walking at night, reading speculative fiction, and tracking developments in data science, cognitive psychology, game theory, and open source software. My evolution in brewing has been coffee to beer to mead to tepache. I am a guitarist. I swim regularly. Board games 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, and Innovation. ...