I am interested in web development, designing interactive web applications and games using the latest tools. Ruby, Rails, Javascript/Coffeescript, Node.js, Canvas, and whatever else I need to get the job done. My other interests are entrepreneurship, education, and game design education, and game design. These last two fields, when practiced well, have a surprising amount in common focus on challenging and increasing the skills of the learner/player. Games do this very well for skills of limited use. School does this very poorly for skills of slightly more use .
I won some awards did well on standardized tests scored in the top 1% of the GRE Math and Verbal, the top 14% of the computer science GRE, and had a GPA of 3.87. I published some papers, and won beat out business majors to claim a cash prize in a business plan competition. I am an Eagle Scout, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and have many virtues the programmer's virtues of laziness laziness (I started programming because the lab I was working for the Williams group at UC Berkeley was doing way too much busywork pressing the same button, reading the same field, and manually entering the result in the same computer ) and impatience impatience (I made the switch to programming because the pace of change was much faster, and the time required to do something useful was significantly lower) , but hopefully not hubris hopefully not hubris only a little overconfidence (I'd rather make a useful program than a perfect program, and I love learning more than being right) .
I'm currently living in Austin, TX and working with mytennislessons.com.