I live with my wife about 40 minutes east of Vancouver, Canada, in Maple Ridge. I acknowlege that where I work, live, and play, is on the unceded territory of the Kwantlen and Katzie communities.

I've been working with code in one form or another since about 2003 when I was writing Visual Basic in high school. I also started dabbling in some simple HTML at that time. I got my first paid programming gig in 2005. It was a subscription based math tutoring app, but being fresh out of school, it was not good.

My family has always been involved in construction, and in 2007 I left my sales job at the local electronics store to start my own renovation business.

That renovation business was my primary source of income for 15 years. I did well, but with a growing family I felt that it was time to shut down my business and focus exclusively on writing code. I knew that I didn't want to be the father who's "too busy" to make it to important events, so I decided that working from home was the way to accomplish that.

My 'agency of one' has been the umbrella under which I've constantly written code to help my family run our businesses, for personal projects, and for freelance projects, since that very first calculator program I wrote in VB over 21 years ago. I work exclusively in the web, and am always staying up-to-date with current trends as well as new and interesting technologies.