Work...
InfoCloud Solutions, Inc., Principal and Senior Consultant
Side Projects...
Web Standards Project, Steering Committee
Personal InfoCloud, Founder & Publisher
Live...
Bethesda, Maryland with my wonderful wife and fantastic son.
Work...
INDUS Corporation, Web Services Program Manager & Subject Matter Expert - Internet; PSS, Inc. - Director Information Application Services & Director Product Development; InterImage, Inc. - Senior Business Analyst & Tech Lead; CompassRose International - Director of Strategic Analysis; AILA - Information Specialist; AMCRA - Research Associate; U.S. Senate - Fellow; Fritz Companies, Inc. - Account Rep. & Data Analyst; and Commonwealth Club of California - Membership Development.
Side Projects...
AIfIA, Founding Leadership Council
Boxes and Arrows, Alumni Tech Lead
Education
Lincoln High School in Stockton, CA;
Saint Mary's College of California for BA degree;
Centre for Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford, England;
Georgetown University Public Policy Institute MPP
I am fortunate that work and play intersect to a great degree. I research, design, advise, and build information applications based on internet technologies and leverage my foundations in information architecture, social interactions, and interaction design.
In college I chose communication as my major (over economics, the draw to this subject stems from a great econ teacher in high school) as I did not have a great grasp of how people interacted and shared information easily nor effectively. What made a good speech that hit home? What made an advertisement stick in your head? These sort of questions triggered a tidal wave of interest. The digital information trends in the office and home really added to the interest and created a deep rooted passion.
Much of this site is built with TypePad (Mac), and a touch of Dreamweaver and put into place with FTP. The graphic elements are created and modified with Adobe PhotoShop and Macromedia FreeHand. The site is moving toward validating XHTML and CSS.
The "Off the Top" section, is managed with a blogging tool built from scratch using PHP and MySQL. This is a light content managment system that I built to ease content creation and upkeep.
Vanderwal.net is now hosted at SegPub, which supports applications and sites developed with PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and MySQL. I have had five wonderful years with them PHP Web Hosting, but with the increase of the number of sites I am maintaining I needed better cost coverage and secure e-mail, which SegPub offers.
