web dev, explorer, photographer.
I was born in San Francisco and raised in Berkeley-ish. I went to college at the University of Redlands where I was in an individualized study program called the Johnston Center and designed a unique major in Photography, Writing, and the Human Experience. I took a variety of classes in art, nonfiction creative writing, and the humanities and contracted the courses to include extra projects so that I could learn what I wanted to. I also received narrative evaluations instead of grades (check out some excerpts below!). Real hippie stuff. I wanted to change the world and all that and hoped to be a social documentary photographer.
After graduating college (with departmental honors, because I go hard at everything I do), I moved to New Orleans to try something totally new. I spent a year working as an assistant manager at a clothing store, then I left when I'd had enough of sales. I briefly worked with a documentary photographer who had Alzheimer's and helped digitally archive her forty years worth of slides. I then got a job at a local photo shop and became an expert at photo retouching, fine art inkjet printing, and many other print shop tasks. After two years of this, in December 2014 I finally packed up everything I could fit into my car, stuck my dog in the front seat, and headed back to the Bay.
Finding myself again with no job and a world of options in front of me, I considered a hundred different ways to go but got fired up about web development.There are so many amazing companies out there and I wanted to find a way to fit in with one of them. I realized that being a web developer was the best way for me to make positive contributions, like I always wanted to. Attending General Assembly's Web Development Immersive provided me entry into that world and, working for 60 hours a week on coding, I learned to be a full stack web developer. I can't wait to see what's next!
After graduating college (with departmental honors, because I go hard at everything I do), I moved to New Orleans to try something totally new. I spent a year working as an assistant manager at a clothing store, then I left when I'd had enough of sales. I briefly worked with a documentary photographer who had Alzheimer's and helped digitally archive her forty years worth of slides. I then got a job at a local photo shop and became an expert at photo retouching, fine art inkjet printing, and many other print shop tasks. After two years of this, in December 2014 I finally packed up everything I could fit into my car, stuck my dog in the front seat, and headed back to the Bay.
Finding myself again with no job and a world of options in front of me, I considered a hundred different ways to go but got fired up about web development.There are so many amazing companies out there and I wanted to find a way to fit in with one of them. I realized that being a web developer was the best way for me to make positive contributions, like I always wanted to. Attending General Assembly's Web Development Immersive provided me entry into that world and, working for 60 hours a week on coding, I learned to be a full stack web developer. I can't wait to see what's next!