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Exhibitions and Publications

New Glass Now! (Upcoming)Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USAFall 2021
Tel Aviv Craft and Design BiennialEretz Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel2020-2021
River of ShadowsHeller Gallery, New York, NY, USA2020
New Glass Now!Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA2019-2020
DepthBeacon Gallery, Boston, MA, USAFall 2019
Analog | DigitalBeacon Gallery, Boston, MA, USASpring 2019
Fresh Paint (Tseva Tari)Tel Aviv2018
New Glass ReviewCorning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA2016 + 2019

Collections

Four Seasons BostonBoston, MA, USA
Corning Museum of GlassCorning, NY, USA

Glass Education

  • Workshops:
    • William Gudenrath, the Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, 2011 & 2013
    • Jeff Mack, the Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass, 2014
    • Michael Schunke, the Pilchuck school and Corning Museum of Glass, 2015 & 2016
    • Boyd Sugiki, Pratt Art Institute and private studio, 2014
  • Ad Hoc Instruction and Tutoring, Portland OR, 2005~2015
    • Andy Paiko, Matthew Stewart, Ken Peterson, Matthew Clark, Ian Gilula, Aaron Frankel et al. at Elements Glass and Firehouse Glass

Experience

  • 15 years in hot shop
  • 5 years running Classical Twist Glass
  • Various industrial commissions for hand-blown glass parts

Full-Time Programming / DBA Work

Cloud Sofware and DevOps ArchitectFurious Corp.
Jerusalem, IsraelFebruary 2018 – Current
  • Adaptation and management of cloud-based AWS, MongoDB, Django, and Angular system.
Python / Django TrainerPDX Code Guild
Portland, ORFebruary 2017 – May 2017
  • Taught a code boot camp in Python / PostGRESQL
Software Development/Architecture Analyst 4Pacificorp
Portland, Oregon, USAJanuary 2014 – Sept 2016
  • Worked with systems managing electrical energy and financial instruments therefore.
  • Built several projects, provided support, assisted in management of transfer of ~$4M / week.
Web / Database DeveloperWellsource, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, USAJuly 2011 – October 2012
  • Maintained enterprise HIPAA compliant ASP.Net, C#, SQL 2010 web application with 300+ clients.
  • Gathered and implemented requirements for upgrades and improvements to existing software
  • Found root causes of customer issues and performed live data and SQL code hot fixes to those issues
Web / Database DeveloperTicket Turtle
Portland, Oregon, USAApr 2007- May 2008

​Technical Consulting Experience

PositionCustomer / IndustryConsulting AgencyDates
Online ProgrammingCodeMentor.io, Upwork, Hackhands, Other.Independent6/2017 – current
Full Stack Development Boot Camp InstructorPDXCode Guild Programming InstructionIndependent2/2017 – 5/2017

Taught 14 week boot camp. Python / Django / CSS / HTML / JavaScript
Financial Software AnalystPacifiCorp Power generation and distributionBizTek People10/2013 – 1/2014 (Subsequently direct employee)

Upgraded and maintained SQL databases, financial tracking software, and business-to-business billing system.
Database AdministratorState of Oregon Home Care Commission GovernmentBizTek People5/2013 – 10/2013

Designed and built database for matching home care workers, people with disabilities, and children with special needs in the State of Oregon
Database DeveloperBP Environmental ScienceCardno Entrix / Robert Half International11/2012 – 5/2013

Database Development with the dataset from the Deep Horizon Event in the Mexican Gulf
Full Stack Developer & QA ConsultantWellsource, Inc. Health CareRobert Half International7/2010 – 7/2011 (Subsequently direct employee)

Full Stack Development (MS .Net) of enterprise system providing Health Risk Assessments to organizations and individuals
QA ConsultantEuro RSCG Edge AdvertisingRobert Half International9/2008 – 2/2010

QA for VISA International Brand Standards Site
QA ConsultantWells Fargo Bank BankingRobert Half International3/2006 – 4/2007

Automated QA for Home Equity and Personal Loan systems
Medical Data Analyst / ProgrammerBanfield the Pet Hospital Veterinary MedicineAppleOne Consulting1/2005 – 9/2005

Revamped system for analyzing medical data from 500 veterinary hospitals
Programming ConsultantVarious Engineering / Insurance / EtcRobert Half International2001

Education

Univesity Education

  • BS Electrical Engineering, Portland State University, Oregon, USA 6/2008-1/2013
  • BA Philosophy, University of Oregon, USA ’03
  • 2 yrs. Computer Science / Art at University of Puget Sound, USA

Other Education / Experience

  • Trinity TEFL Certificate, awarded Barcelona, Spain ‘03
  • 500 Hour Yoga teacher certification, YoYoYogi, Portland, Oregon, USA ‘17