Paul began his professional life working in the Detroit suburbs in the pre-press industry. Making use of his background in computer graphics and networking Paul was brought in to aid in transition from expensive, proprietary image processing equipment to open architecture, lower cost, desktop systems. Moving to Columbus in the early 90’s Paul began his second career in the just emerging world of CD-ROM and later internet based multimedia. Frustrated by seeing an inspired or elegant design fail in its promise as the programming and engineering teams made compromises on the way to launch, Paul has found his niche as a technical bridge between the designer and the engineer.

Growing up Paul was always the kid taking things apart to see how they worked. Encouraged by a family friend who would drop off garage sale finds for dissection and analysis, he eventually mastering the innards of small appliances. Later, Paul moved on to analog circuits, radio, tv and finally digital computers.

Today this curiosity about how things work has Paul constantly learning about emerging and maturing technologies. From the embedded real time operating systems of medical equipment to Java and Brew based applications in the exploding handset market to the DotNet, Ajax, and Rails frameworks used to build some of today’s most compelling web applications, Paul takes an understanding of how things work on the inside to help Shiny Object make things simpler on the outside.