About Me

In college, I didn't pursue computer science because the math and GPA required were more than I wanted to deal with. So I got a degree in Visual Communications with an emphasis on TV and film production. After getting my degree from the University of Utah in 1990, I moved to Seattle, seeking out a job in the technical aspects of TV and video. I took a temp job at company called Microsoft, just to pay the bills until the video gig came around. Luckily, the video gig never came around. I got a full-time job at Microsoft in July of 1993, working in IT Systems as a database and process administrator for Microsoft's sales and marketing systems. In 1997, I moved to the Sidewalk Business Unit, which was Microsoft's attempt at city guide content. As that effort started to fall, I moved to Microsoft's Travel Business Unit, called MSN Expedia. There, I designed a business reporting utility that empowered employees to pivot sales data inside a web interface, in near real-time.

Expedia spun-off from Microsoft in November of 1999 in an initial public offering, with about 130 employees. Luckily, all of this happened before the dot-com bust of March 2000. I continued work at Expedia, building an accounts payable system, an extranet, corporate travel reporting and other business systems.

An opportunity came to me in January 2005 to be the first non-founding employee of a start-up called INRIX. The three founders were looking for talented people to build a vehicular traffic data company (if I don't put the "vehicular" in there, most of my tech friends think "web traffic".) As employee #4, I've played a lot of different roles. I've built operational components that monitor INRIX's processing systems, implemented the INRIX corporate website and designed the annual INRIX Scorecard website. I really enjoy working in a startup environment. INRIX has grown to over 75 employees and makes about $25M in annual revenue. The story at INRIX continues on. Good things are in the future. Stay tuned.

Outside of work, you'll find me singing karaoke with my friends, cooking in my downtown bachelor pad, or who knows what.