I'm a senior-level fullstack web developer with a strong foundation in design, branding, photography & ecommerce.

Born in southern California and growing up on the North Shore of Oahu, I usually spent my afternoons in the pacific ocean catching waves and dodging my homework.

On days when the weather was a little too dicey and the surf wasn’t ideal, you could catch me inside drawing graffiti in my sketchbook, downloading bootleg MP3’s off of LimeWire, and trying to figure out how to customize my MySpace layout.

15 years later, I’m a senior level web developer & UX/UI designer who’s been tasked with designing, developing and maintaining enterprise level e-commerce applications for the global tourism and travel industry, and websites for some of the largest consumer brand names and multinational corporations in the world.

Orville Redenbacher’s, Reddi-wip, Chef Boyardee, Febreeze and Gillete, just to name a few, for multinational corporations like Abbot, ConAgra Brands, and Procter & Gamble.

I took an unconventional path through my education, which has resulted in my unique interdisciplinary creative and technical expertise.

My formal degree is in Graphic Design, which covered most mediums of both print and digital art production, such as, audio/video production, 3D modeling & animation, package design and branding, and then some. Some introductory web development was taught under the design program, and while most of my design cohorts hated code and lamented the idea of being a "developer," I thought code was fascinating, and was always curious to learn more.

Intro to HTML/CSS were the basic requirements of my design degree, but early on in my creative career, I understood that having a higher degree of technical expertise would enable me to further develop and execute my creative and entrepreneurial ideas. So I electively took some additional programming courses parallel to my design degree, like .Net, JavaScript, SQL, and Database Engineering.

I continued down the web development path for years, programming CMS integrated dynamic websites and eventually began working on enterprise level web applications using Java/Spring MVC and custom building my own API's with Node.JS or PHP, and building highly performant web applications using modern frameworks like Vue, React, Angular, and have also built native iOS/Android apps using frameworks like ReactNative.

Sometime around 2016 I became the Director of Technology for Black Point Industries, and was tasked with completely re-engineering and architecting our technical infrastructure from the ground up, to address scalability and performance issues with the existing legacy systems.

I architected, designed, and optimized a centralized database and API to facilitate high volume e-commerce transactions across a network of 15+ highly perfomant conversion oriented e-commerce websites, powering some of the top tourist attractions in Hawaii’s highly competitive 18 billion dollar tourism industry.

I collaborate and work well with designers because of my keen eye for artistic detail, and developers enjoy working with me because I've been down in the trenches of large applications, writing code for a long time, and I speak the lingo fluently.

My screen printing teacher doubled as the head of my school’s photography department, and on evenings when I would stay late on campus working in the print studio printing t-shirts for one of my first entrepreneurial endeavors, hustling graffiti t-shirts I designed at hip-hop festivals, I’d eavesdrop on the photography lectures.

My mixed background in both technology and design means I can effectively manage large scale projects from creative ideation to technical execution.

In my free time, I enjoy drawing, painting, surfing, playing the guitar, and more recently, have been designing and programming a graffiti drawing game called The Yard. The front end is build as a Progressive Web Application using Vue & Nuxt, and I'm currently in the process of developing a backend in Node.JS to allow users to save and upload their artwork to their profiles, like and follow other users, and mint and sell NFTs on Ethereum's blockchain.