I am a Developer Relations and Community professional based in the Midwest. I was recently the Director of DevRel & Community at CircleCI, and previously at Solace, Auth0, XDA, and numerous consulting gigs. With almost 30 years in Tech, covering just about every functional area including Support, SysAdmin, Application Developer, Program Manager, and Business Analyst, I am active in the DevRel and DevOps communities, and co-created DevOpsPartyGames.com. Husband and father, I am house-broken, and (generally) play well with others.

I am passionate about community and software development, and the processes involved with each, and take great happiness in evolving the understanding between companies and their technical audience. I am driven to enable the technically savvy to be your greatest champions.

Developers don’t care that you know, until they know that you care.

Here are just a few of the things I enjoy:

• Family
• Sports
• Open Source
• Community
• Coffee
• Music
• Movies
• Camping