datawench.net

Preamble: Yes, this site is boring. It's meant to be. This is not my "personal brand." I am not a "thought leader." This is a web presence in support of one online instance of myself - that portion most directly concerned with my daily work as a web developer.

I'd like to think of myself as an Accidental Programmer, but the fact is that I've been doing this for most of my adult life, in one way or another. The accidental nature of my current profession is simply that I came by it in such a roundabout way, as if I'd been circling it slowly for decades, only to find myself spiraling home.

I'm actually trained as an audio engineer, and specialize in sound synthesis and digital audio technologies. I taught the subjects, during the latter years of which career I supplemented the creative urge with dance photography and graphic design. At the same time I pursued graduate studies in Quantitative Social System Analysis - an extravagantly interdisciplinary portmanteau of anthropology, artificial intelligence, economics, system dynamics and epistemology.

Freelancing as a graphic designer paid the bills for a while, but the last such gig morphed into a programming assignment when I stayed on with a client to help them not just redesign but rebuild a website.

And here I am, years later, having found a nearly perfect medium.

(to be continued)