I currently run a web development company called visicswire. I partnered with Jonathan Greene to start this company. We have been working together for more than 3 years but our company is only a little more than a two years old. Check out the ever-growing list of work we’re doing.
I am also the technical director for digital web magazine. I deal with fixing old applications, developing new applications, and generally just making sure the site continues to run. I’m currently working on rolling out an upgrade to Digital Web’s content management system.
I’m attending night classes at the Illinois Institute of Technology working towards my Master of Science degree in Information Architecture. We have a joke about IIT amongst the students: “There’s no T in IIT.” (And it’s true, if there’s any technology around, I haven’t seen it.) We mostly just have crazy architecture.
I received a B.A. in Interactive Multimedia from Columbia College Chicago in December of 2005. While taking classes to achieve this degree, I studied programming, information design, graphic design and management practices (both for businesses and for projects).
I was a founding member of another company, called Black Point Editions along with three other Columbia College students. This company’s business is the production of gallery quality prints for artists.
Black Point Editions specializes in black & white printing through a system that goes by many names, but is commonly called Piezography by users, such as ourselves, of Jon Cone’s excellent ink system. We don’t limit ourselves to black and white, though, we also do some amazing things with color printing techniques. We also have some really really hi-res drum scanners…if you’re into that sorta thing.
I was a staff member at Columbia College Chicago working in the Photography Department for two and a half years. I took care of the department’s computer network and other technology related issues.
My past experience also includes a two and a half year stint as an associate with Apogee Strategies LLC. This job entailed the maintenance of small-business networks, workstations, and servers. The majority of systems and servers I worked on during my tenure at Apogee were Windows-based, with the exception of two Macintosh-based businesses.
My other responsibilities, while at Apogee, included advising clients on uses of technology within their business and industry, creating initial coded versions of websites from designer-produced Photoshop documents, and maintaining Apogee’s internal systems.
I built my new bike. It’s a Bare Knuckle frame with Pista track handlebars (old-school fat), fixed gear, single front-mounted brake, & Mavic rims. ★
Amazing slides from what must have been a fun talk by Rasmus Lerdorf.
A photographic project of social anthropology.
Categories: fine-art, photography
Jonnie Spratley tries his hand at making textpattern's admin interface in Flex.
Categories: flex, flexpattern, textpattern
How to use Git undercover if your official SCM is ClearCase and you don't like it... (for that day I work in the enterprise)
Playground Blues on creating a simple XMl or JSON api for your Django app.
Categories: api, django, how-to, programming