Part programmer, occasional cellist, biker, and photographer, I live in the suburbs of Maryland. I work at the NCBI at NIH, and pass the rest of the time reading, rooting for the Red Sox, and riding my bike (if it’s a perfect day).
I work in the Web Technologies group at the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. What do I do? Well, I mainly do web programming using standards based HTML/CSS/Javascript, working in a system of OO XML/XSLT. I’m quite good at each. Want examples? Ok, I re-wrote the PubMed interface (to look/work the same), and also wrote My NCBI from scratch. My websites get about 3 million hits a day, and that makes me happy. 
I’ve previously worked in C++, Perl, Python, and Ruby. I am fascinated by both graphic design and typography, though I am better at the latter. I’m a bookworm, and read all the books on these subjects that I can get my hands on. I am also a programming language geek… I play with Scheme, Eiffel, Lisp, and other languages I can learn from.
My side projects are many, and most are never seen by eyes other than my own. I like to toy around Django, Python, Javascript, and Scheme.
I’ve played the cello since fourth grade, and am principal cellist of the Columbia Orchestra. I love music (of almost all genres) and enjoy to listen/play/read about music history. My favorite cellist has always been Mstislav Rostropovich, and I am especially fond of 20th–century Russian composers like Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Miaskovsky. I used to be a member of the University of Maryland and Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestras. I still maintain the website of the latter.
I’m an avid Red Sox fan who grew up watching them during the summers I spent at my grandparents house. I’m told the only thing I say during games is “Come on Man-ny!”
My basement is filled with a fleet of 8 bicycles (currently), 4 fixed gears, 3 road, and one old mountain. I love riding, and go whenever I can, rain or shine, in the hot or extreme cold.
I’m a photo geek as well. My dad was a big Olympus fan, so I chose that brand to use all of the lenses that were around. I’m still relatively new to this, but try to get better with every picture I take. I now use a combination of an Olympus E-520, and my baby, my Nikon D700.
