Tech Timeline
2025
Rust & Rum
2025
I get back to Animation. Using the new AI tools building a world I have spent 20 years thinking about.
2024
Pishpirik
2024
After a lifetime of gaming, I get the opportunity to create a game with partner Arrit Gashi
2021
Free of Finance
2021
I manage of team of 19 and learn that just because your a fortune 100, doesn't mean your technology is on point. But I love the problems I'm solving.I get to work on mainframes again
2020
I make Principal
2020
I work for another fortune 100 and never meet a single person. I learn transactional volume constraints, global application problems, and how paswordless systems work.
2018
Behind the Payments
2018
I get to work with Amazon, Paypal and Wallmart. I see how SOW's , Contracts, and the power of per transaction cost structures.
2017
Startup Madness
2017
I consult on Hoard a crypto startup and see the insane amount of money Angel Investor's have to bet on the next thing
2016
I sell Bitcoin
2016
There's no way its going to go higher than this, I use the proceeds to build a house and buy land.
2013
Parachute over the mountains
2013
Google purchased moto, I wouldn't move so with the parachute, and about 100 bitcoin, move to NC. They launch material the next year and its oddly familiar to everything we built at Moto
2007
Dropped the Ball
2007
Smartphone revolution changes everything. I get to work on the start of Android, Tablets, and the start of Design systems, Bootstrap, Zurb, etc
2005
World of Warcraft
2005
I told you MMORPGs were coming. Now I'm addictied. Not good for marriage.
2004
High End Design
2004
I meet the shapers of awesome, Frog, IDEO, and get to work with Pininfarina the ferrari design team. A curve can be functional and beautiful. Wind tunnels are cool.
2001
Hello Moto
2001
The tiny screen becomes the most important screen on the planet. I work on and off for Moto the next 10 years developing mobil apps
2000
I'm a real boy
2000
I graduate and get a realboy job, I thought Disney had tech, The lockheed war simulator was an MMORP the world didn't know it was going to get eventually
1999
Y2K is coming
1999
I learn Lingo and Director, and make CD and DVD snake oil. In a very, I love the movie Hackers, sort of way. Create a fantastic visual display to tell you we updated some dates in your computer
1997
The Mouse
1997
I start working at Disney for the sole purpose of becoming an Animator. The technology in this place is magical
1995
Robots
1995
US first Robotics competition, my senior team makes it to regionals, I now love robots. I head to UCF
1993
Dillard High School
1993
The school computer lab, I start using Adobe products, cause how do I make video games. We also play Bolo and love Rocket Launchers only Marathon (Bungie)
1989
My First PC
1989
My grandmother was a paralegal and she new clicking keys was my future. Deskmate PC arrives home, I read the Dos manual at 12, and start a collection of 5.5 inch floppies
1985
The NES
1985
The entire world changed with Nintendo, and I had one. OMG how do I make these magical things?
1977
It Begins
1977
I am born into a house with an Atari 2600. My gaming journey starts at birth.