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Location United States
Current Role(s): 
Drupal Developer - Senior Associate
ICF

Professional Info

Companies Worked For
High Rock Studios, Apple, Smithsonian Institution, Adobe, Hagerstown Community College, Another Software Miracle, LLC
Industries Worked In: 
Music, American History, Multimedia, Web

On Drupal.org for 16 years 3 weeks

Bio: 

Began programming my first professional Drupal site in spring of 2008, the week Drupal 6 was released. Joined High Rock Studios as Senior Web Developer and built many complex and feature rich Drupal 7 sites. I am now a Drupal Developer at ICF where I work on projects for and with the Executive Office of the President, ATF, Acquia, HHS, and more.

Before all of that, I graduated Berklee College of Music with a degree in Music Composition, after which I moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a lead-guitarist. Toured and recorded with Al Stewart, the Spencer Davis Group, Tommy Chong, among others, and worked in the studio as a tech for Madonna, Ringo Starr and KISS. Produced CD-ROMs for Apple Computer, Adobe, and the Smithsonian using QuickTime and Macromedia Director, and taught these skills at UCLA, the American Film Institute and in Europe at Apple School.

After producing Virtual Gettysburg, I returned to the East Coast where I founded the Antietam Battlefield Guides and authored the books Rare Images of Antietam (2012) and Shadowing Grant (2017). In my spare time I am collections manager at Boonsborough Museum of History and love taking historically themed day trips with my wonderful family.

Drupal Contributions: 

I am the organizer of the Western Maryland User's Group.

Areas of Expertise: 
Turning complex business models into finely structured Drupal sites
Implementing and troubleshooting complex module configurations
Defining and refining the content editor's experience
Writing user documentation
Drupal events: 
DrupalCon DC 2009

Credited on 3 fixed issues

My mentors: 

One person lists gettysburger as a mentor

I contributed to Drupal issue queues
I help in the Drupal support forums
I provide Drupal-related services