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Websites. Interface Design.
Front-End Development.

I design and code websites, interfaces, and anything that needs to be easy to use and look great. I love helping businesses grow, making a positive impact on the world around me, and playing with big thoughts and ideas.

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Projects

I love creating things—especially websites, apps, and anything that combines technical skills with visual design.

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Dash

Dash is a productivity tool that combines lists, notes, images, and my schedule to help me stay on track. It’s a personal dashboard designed to balance life and work while keeping my goals in focus.

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Opti

Opti is an app designed to help keep websites in top shape. It currently checks and logs site speed, scans for spelling errors, and monitors a variety of small—but essential—details that contribute to a successful website.

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Adventure

From a 2,650 mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail with my wife, to weekend backpacking trips with our child, I love to get out and create epic memories. When I’m not designing and building websites and apps, you can likely find me in some mountain range or planning the next dream trip.

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Hiking the Colorado Trail

I was missing the trail. It had only been a couple years since our Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) hike, but I feared that the days of big adventures were forever behind me…

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Overland Stage Route and Canyon sin Nombre

Today’s exploration opened up quite a bit of new, very interesting territory for me. I can easily keep myself busy in this…

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Three Days in November

Three-and-a-half days of sleeping in our car, hiking and exploring by day, and relaxing or working on personal projects at night…

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Thoughts, Notes, and Random Writings

Just a few recent and past favorites from my blog. I write about everything from web design and development, to architecture, adventure, politics (yikes!), and just random other thoughts. It’s a veritable smorgasbord of things I find entertaining and interesting.

Web Design

Resources Landing Page for Bioscience Company

After building out a robust resources section to store and organize a biotech company’s ev…

From Squarespace to WordPress for Easier Editing

We migrated the Donner Summit Association website from Squarespace to WordPress to improve…

Custom Resources Search with Algolia

To improve the organization and discoverability of a rapidly growing resource library, we …

Easy-to-Edit WordPress Websites

I aim to create websites that are not only beautiful and accomplish the goals of my client…

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San Diego

Civita Park and Surrounding Neighborhood

I finally took a little trip to Civita Park and the surrounding neighb…

Mission Hills Library

It’s been a couple years since the new Mission Hills Library moved fro…

Will Ride for Pizza

I’ve been wanting to try a full weekend adventure in the desert for a …

Idyllwild Weekend

It’s easy to question your choices when you’re shivering and slowly re…

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Bird of Northwest Summers

For one day last year, I heard a bird in the neighborhood. I wasn’t su…

Three Days in November

Three-and-a-half days of sleeping in our car, hiking and exploring by …

Too Much Good Stuff

If you’re exhausted and happy, you’re doing something right.

Remove I-5 From Portland’s Waterfront

Portland is a beautiful city. From the enormous Forest Park to its vie…

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