Be creative, keep it simple. I’m not a stranger to that idea. From doodling at a young age to designing on my computer today, design is something I have always enjoyed and appreciated. I attended Columbia College Chicago, then interned a bit, was employed for a bit, and freelanced for a bit. After all those bits, I wanted to create my own environment to collaborate with other talented creatives.

I started Collision with a friend in 2010 and now have taken the reins on my own. Collision is a space to create beautiful, functional designs for my clients, collaborate with other talented creatives, and make a living doing what I love.

I entered the wide world of Web development as a teenager, making Diaryland templates for other teenage girls. From then on I was committed to helping people communicate and connect with others on the Web. I moved on from Diaryland to an open-source blogging software called Greymatter, which was popular in the early 2000s.

Now I focus on helping individuals and companies define themselves on the Internet with free and open-source technologies like WordPress.

I broke the first computer I was given access to. Then, naturally enough, I proceeded to break it repeatedly. It was all part of my brilliantly evil plan to figure out how it worked. And I did. I was able to gradually move toward more constructive avenues and began writing small programs to perform useful or entertaining tasks. The programming languages I started with have, of course, long since been retired to the history books, but others, better, have taken their place.

I now develop complex and custom web applications with my wife, Tiffany, and our three domesticated dingos, Dagon, Deilos, and Dactyl.