About

I’m a Product Manager (currently looking) living in Portland, Oregon.  My wife and I moved here from San Francisco in October ’07.  We love to travel and to ski (alpine – not any of that cross country stuff).

I grew up in small town Indiana.  Two of my grandparents were Amish, but I was more into the pies and trampolines at reunions than horse and buggies, etc.  I played all kinds of sports growing up, but only when my parents could yank me away from the Atari 2600 or Commodore 64.

Apparently I like to move or be on the move since graduating high school I have (thanks mostly to work) lived/worked in the following cities (in order):

• West Lafayette, IN (college)
• St. Louis, MO (3 college semesters for engineering co-op)
• Houston, TX (2 college semesters for engineering co-op)
• Chicago, IL (Home ’97 – ’99)
• Munich, Germany (4 month project)
• San Francisco, CA (Home ’99 – ’07)
• Houston, TX (2 year project)
• Detroit, MI (5 month project)
• Memphis, TN (5 month project)
• New York City, NY (4 month project)
• Miami, FL (4 month project)
• Fargo, ND (4 month project)
• Portland, OR (Home ’07 – present)

My social networking nickname is “TheInfovore” because I like to consume information.  Lots of it.  Apparently it’s in my personality, so more often than not I can be found reading about one of the following topics:

• Tech
• Product Management
• The housing bubble, bust, and ensuing financial crisis
• Evolution
• Evolutionary psychology
• Evolutionary biology
• Economics
• Politics
• Brain theory
• Portland
• Portland’s tech peeps
• The world’s's tech thought leaders

• Strange Love Live – Tech Addition
• Hazelnut Tech Talk
• Silicon Florist

Bachelor’s of Science degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Purdue University