Front-end Developer. Digital hermit. Ersatz cartoonist. All-around average dad.

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I live with my wife and two boys in Ballard, Seattle. We live in an old Craftsman that I'm finally getting around to fixing up.

Work

I'm a front-end developer at the University of Washington School of Law, and I'd like to stay here until I retire and collect my lovely union pension.

I manage the public facing website as well as email marketing, and collaborate with Law IT on the help desk and other projects. I'm currently focusing on web standards and accessibility. I am a UW IT Accessibility Liaison and a UW Information Security Advocate, and participate in the Accessible Web, Front-end Technologies, User Experience & Design Thinking and Web Council communities of practice.

I've been trying to get better about documentation, which is especially important since I'm now working on several API implementations, including a home grown API for our personnel database that I'm really about. I also joined the W3C Documentation Community Group and need to get involved. I attended one meeting and they were lovely, but I was terrified. Baby steps, old man!