About me
Got my first computer (Commodore 64)
At thirteen, a Commodore 64 was the first machine I could program, break, and fix myself. It set the direction for everything that followed.
Quit high school
Left high school to pursue my own path. Unconventional, but it matched how I learned best — by doing, not sitting.
Got my GED
Earned my GED and closed the loop on formal credentials — a checkpoint before the work that came next.
Got a music scholarship (quit 6 months later)
Won a music scholarship and walked away six months in. Music stayed central to my life, but the conservatory wasn't where I was headed.
Read The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand's novel sharpened how I thought about independence, conviction, and building things that matter — ideas that would resurface years later.
Started building websites professionally for local businesses
My first paid work as a developer — turning HTML and scripts into real revenue for local businesses.
CTO (Front End), Gridiron/Fanlink
Built websites for NFL players including Kurt Warner, Jerry Rice, and Jevon Kearse. Sports, celebrity, and the early commercial web at scale.
Built STOPzilla
Anti-spyware at the height of the malware boom. Grew revenue from zero to fifty thousand dollars a day in three years.
STOPzilla lands as a Jeopardy! clue
STOPzilla showed up as an answer on Jeopardy! — proof the product had broken through to mainstream recognition.
Retired to Texas
Stepped back from the daily grind after STOPzilla to reset, explore, and figure out what I wanted to build next.
Married Mila
Married Mila — the beginning of the family everything else would orbit around.
Mila's Tools v1 — started building iPhone apps
Launched Mila's Tools and started building iPhone apps in earnest. Received two Apple Staff Pick awards along the way.
Joined the Atlas Shrugged film team
Joined the team producing and promoting the Atlas Shrugged movie trilogy — Rand's work from 1996 coming full circle.
Mikayla was born
Our daughter Mikayla was born — and Mila's Tools, named for her mother, suddenly had a namesake in the house too.
Built CinemaCloudWorks v1
Built the first version of CinemaCloudWorks primarily to distribute Atlas Shrugged Parts 2 and 3 — film distribution software born from a real production need.
Started Atlas Distribution Company
Founded Atlas Distribution to release the Atlas Shrugged films — independent distribution, end to end.
Atlas Shrugged Part 3
Released Part 3 — the culmination of a multi-year production and distribution arc I'd been part of since 2011.
Built iScreeningRoom
Secure online screening for filmmakers and distributors — a natural extension of everything I'd learned distributing movies.
Started Jiu-Jitsu
Started training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu — something purely physical, humbling, and completely unrelated to screens.
Received Jiu-Jitsu blue belt
Two years of consistent training. Proof that starting something new in your forties still works.