Hello! I am a happily married guy with three small kids. My wife, Diana, and I have been married since 2011 and live in a century home in Lakewood, Ohio. Our kids are featured in the photos at the bottom of the page.
Along with being family-focused, I like to:
I do not get to take many hiking trips these days. However, I have enjoyed my trips to the Smoky Mountains for significant hiking, camping, and being terrified of those massive cliffs. I don't like the heights, but they are worth it for amazing views.
And that huge night sky at the top of the mountains:
Much of my free time is spent trying to expand my coding knowledge and skillset. I get into creating small web projects (see some here) or taking classes or working through tutorials. I am pretty goal-driven, so I made a study plan tool to help me keep track of what I am doing and define my direction. The tool is centered around one main goal, which is broken into a few smaller goals, which are then each broken into a few smaller goals. At any point I can open that tool up and see exactly where I am in meeting each small goal and how these lead to the primary objective. Check out my study plan tool here to see what I am describing. Feel free to set up an account and use it, if you would like.
In addition to the above, I play acoustic and electric guitar, bass, limited keys and write and record music in my studio. My current music project is possibly my favorite: Ignite Elysium →.
My favorite guitar is my silver Les Paul. This is a sweet guitar, for sure, but there is more: it is also an engagement gift from Diana before we got married. That makes it sound even better. 🙂
All types of music fill my iPhone; from Trance(Armin Van Buuren, Orjan Nilson, etc) to Classical (Vivaldi, YoYo Ma, etc) to Metal (Tool, Metallica) to Jazz (Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk) and Alternative (Dave Matthews, Stone Temple Pilots). More recently, I have been getting into just about anything upright bassist Edgar Myers does, which is a lot of Blue Grass and Classical. Chris Thile and Stuart Duncan are two more Blue Grass players that have been in fairly constant rotation for me recently.
Oh, and if you couldn't tell by all of the photos here, I love photography, (see some of that here).
Please do not hesitate to reach out to me for anything.
Here is more of a look at my wife Diana and kids William, Juliet and Vaughn. William and Juliet are twins and the two big kids shown here. Vaughn is the little one with the huge personality. 🙂
