Welcome to my site. I specialize in Information Architecture, Web Scripting, Web Design, and Multimedia Production. Take a look at my online resume, or peruse some of my recent projects; then tell me how I can put my skills to work for you.

UPDATE: I'm know the "Director of Web Development and Marketing" of Karen Pryor Clickertraining and TAGteach International, two companies focusing on operant conditioning techniques for animal training and sports training. I also clicker trained my cat.

Multimedia Production:

I have a strong background in electronic music and digital video, including work on video-based gallery installations using Adobe Premiere, Quicktime, Media100 and Adobe After Effects, and a streaming radio program using MP3 and Shoutcast. I've also produced several works in Macromedia Director and Flash, I'm familiar with Lingo scripting, and I'm currently learning ActionScript, a derivative of JavaScript.

Information Architecture:

As Web/Information Designer at O'Reilly & Associates, I helped create Safari Books Online, a web service that puts the entire print catalogs of several leading tech book publishers into an online library with multiple interfaces, subscription options, and levels of clientele, from individual users to corporate intranets to online resellers. At last count, Safari contains over 500 technical and computer books, all readable, searchable and annotable online.

At Brown University, I majored in "Digital Arts and Media," an independent concentration combining computer science, hypertext, and interactive multimedia. I focused on hypertext writing, creating large webs of research, academic papers, and fiction through various hypertext systems including HTML, Storyspace, and Macromedia Flash. Some of my work can be found in the curriculum of universities around the world as exemplars of early web-based hypertext innovation and thought, and I've studied with pioneers of hypertext literature and research like George Landow and Robert Coover.

Web Scripting:

I co-authored "Designing with JavaScript, 2nd Ed.", which has gotten rave reviews and is currently on sale at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other national bookstores. "Designing with JavaScript" takes the non-technical web designer through the fundamentals of the language, DHTML, and object-oriented programming, while focusing on practical examples that are applicable on first reading. I also contributed two chapters to "Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Ed.", a bestseller, on web interctivity and Dynamic HTML.

I've contributed articles on JavaScript to the O'Reilly Network, including "Hierarchical Menus with the Underrated style.display Object", and "Cross-browser Style Objects." While at O'Reilly, I learned Perl from Jon Orwant, co-author of "Programming Perl, 3rd Ed." and Editor-in-Chief of "the Perl Journal," and was a technical reviewer of "Perl for Website Management," also from O'Reilly.

Web Design:

I've worked as a Web Designer since 1997, in an advertising agency, a publishing company, and in numerous freelance and independent projects. My most recent work includes Safari Books Online, a web service and publishing platofrm whose interface is customizable for each reseller, which entailed creating detailed interface standards, XHTML and CSS templates, and a variety of unique looks for client sites and demonstrations. For a sample of my designs, take a look at my online portfolio.