Serial entrepreneur at heart, I was hooked onto computers at an early age. While I missed the BBS era and what would eventually be called Eternal September, I was however born into the birth of the World Wide Web.
Fascinated with the concept, I wanted to know as much as possible about these “servers” and programs that rendered HTML into a visual representation of a digital page. For the most part during this time, not even most colleges knew, let alone grade school teachers on how to do such a thing.
And so I started developing software since the year 2002 with C++ and then continued for a brief time with Java at the late age of fifteen. Switching to become a full stack web developer by 2004 as foreseeing the future was all about the internet. Sun Microsystems “the network is the computer” never became more clear.
When I first started, a was building mostly in PHP, then some ASP, and later with Coldfusion on a variety of OS platforms, ranging from Windows Server (2000-2008R2), Linux (debian/Ubuntu, SuSE) to unix (FreeBSD, Solaris 8-10), all running different web servers such as IIS, Apache, then later Nginx, and Lighttpd.
Since this was the beginning of web development or Web 2.0, many of these services and programs were only known to a select few in the Valley at time. Additional caching services like Varnish, Pound, and the dawn of open source search engines like Sphinx and Solr.
Eventually at the old age of 18, I started my first real business running a web hosting company with a custom built web control panel, Devdom Servers. The name stemmed from the abbreviation of Developers Domain.
My self taught and on hands experience had me expand into email and database hosting; as at the time, these servers were physically hosted in house… in the basement. Even co-location was still a somewhat foreign concept. All up and running on this new concept of fiber for the home, a business class FiOS connection. In my town, it was only me and the Wells Fargo bank in the main shopping center that had such a connection.
I ended up becoming quite skilled at email servers, or at the time, the bane of my existence. This would later help out when it was at the point around 2011, that I moved on from other endeavors and started what became on of the largest gaming sites at the time, Leviathyn.
Before entirely switching to web businesses, I had a short period where I was collaborating to develop the first mobile streaming service using flash lite for the Chumby device with my company at the time, Anime Kiosk LLC, an online anime streaming service. The Chumby was a smart clock device running flash before what would eventually bring to its demise, the launch of the iPhone.
I’ve had a career doing many things, from running news/media sites to search engines and API services for the media and gaming industry.
My management skills are from boot strapping startups with only a partner to running a business with over 240 paid freelancers. I’ve managed sites and businesses with limited clients to sites with over 500,000 daily visits. I’ve raised capital via seeder firms and through angel investors.
Hosting web services for clients, podcast hosting and management, streaming services for icecast (online radio), Adobe Media streaming (video), and nullsoft.
I built large aggregation services for real time analytics (openFeed) for link aggregation and social ranking.
LLM development for Tundra and The Game Genome Project.
Currently still a serial entrepreneur. Founder of Dropstr Inc, SaaS services for many industries, forever creating and spinning off new ideas and services. Check out my portfolio to see a list of all my creations.