One Mission.
I started working with computers at age 11 at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. I convinced the administrators to let me stay after hours because I wasn't done. I'm still not done.
By the early '90s I was on Microsoft's International Excel team, where I deployed the first TCP/IP server on their campus — a Mac IIfx running A/UX. Yes, a Mac. Inside Microsoft. I also started a musicians' group called MS Jam with 7 people. Four years later it had grown to over 250 and become an official corporate resource — bands, entertainment, musical knowledge, and a community where musicians across the company could connect and play. That experience taught me something I've carried ever since: I don't just architect systems. I catalyze transformation.
In 2000, I made a career-defining choice: I stopped supporting Windows machines. I'd watched too many clients spend more on troubleshooting than on growth. I refused to profit from that cycle.
I've been in Los Angeles since 1999, serving creative professionals, medical practices, and high-profile clients — building relationships measured in decades, not transactions. When I'm not the right person for the job, I know who is.
I'm also a third-generation professional musician. My grandfather was a championship fiddler who led his own band, The Stubblejumpers. My mother is an accomplished pianist and violinist. My father founded a jazz quartet in Seattle. I toured as guitarist with Aaron Carter for nearly a decade and continue to collaborate with extraordinary musicians across genres. Music and technology aren't separate pursuits — they're both about the same thing: removing noise until what's left just works.
I don't need any practice fixing your stuff.