About Thomas
From robot mazes and game dreams to long-lived web systems.
My interest in programming started in high school with a college-level robotics course where C code turned into movement. That feeling — text becoming something useful — still sits underneath the work I do now.
My journey
As a child, I spent countless hours playing video games like Super Mario Bros, Zelda, and Sonic. My original dream was to become a game tester. With guidance from my aunt, I realized development was the better long-term path — and that led me to Neumont College of Computer Science.
At Neumont, I started with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, and XSLT, then expanded into object-oriented programming, design patterns, data modeling, C#/.NET, and Java. A project for IBM gave me a reason to build a web interface in PHP, and that decision became a long-running thread through my career.
I began working professionally in late 2006 and consider January 2007 the start of my development career. Since then I’ve worked through custom systems, consulting projects, e-commerce platforms, framework migrations, integrations, static site rebuilds, and plenty of production debugging.
Life outside code
The hobbies are part of the operating system too.
Games, Lego builds, Disney trips, live events, family, and pets all keep the work grounded in actual human life.
