Throughout my career I've maintained a broad, generalist approach. I've worked in a variety of settings (academia, consulting, start-ups, industry) and on a very wide range of problems:

• automated statistical analysis for market research
• machine vision
• robotics
• search engines
• general AI problems and machine learning
• many kinds of web applications
• distance learning
• collaborative writing tools (From A Birdie.com, my current venture)
• very large scale data-mining on graph databases
• logging and data collection at scale and instrumentation
• large scale distributed systems and server-to-server communications platforms

Beyond the tech world, I am interested in politics, literature & writing, and I love playing soccer (while I still can). I believe in the value of the humanistic world view and always aim to follow Tim O'Reilly's maxims: "work on stuff that matters" and "create more value than you capture". I live in the beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts with my wife and our son.