(If you're looking for my professional biography, it's been moved here. That stuff got to be too boring and didn't belong on this page anyway.)

I am a thirty-something professional who lives in the shadows of New York City. Even though I call Hoboken home, I tend to travel over 100 days a year for, both, business and pleasure. Professionally, I am based in the New York City area, but spend a significant amount of time working out of London and Providence, RI.

In the winter months, I am primarily focused on the great sport of snowboarding. I often get to snowboard over 40 days each year and spend a lot of time writing about the sport and connecting with fellow snowboarders throughout the world. I have contributed a number of snowboard-related articles to various print and online publications, and spent a number of years on Snowboard.com, where I moderated the Equipment Guide/Advice, General and East Coast sections of the site. With several of my snowboarding colleagues, we recently completed the first cut of the "Definitive Guide to Purchasing a Snowboard", which is available on this site. OK, yes, I'm a bit obsessed.

Throughout the year, I enjoy traveling with friends on both snowboard and non-snowboard related adventures. Some of my favorite cities in the world include New York, Montreal, London (where I lived for most of 2003), Madrid, Sydney and, of course, Paris. Closer to home, I'm particularly fond of the beauty and variety that Canada has to offer, and some of my Canadian friends have deemed me an adopted Canadian citizen. In the coming years, I'd like to explore Chile, Argentina and Thailand.

No matter where I travel, I can never be too far from my home town of Hoboken or New York City. Although Hoboken is not, technically, located within New York City, I live closer to midtown Manhattan than most New Yorkers do and get to appreciate the great views of Manhattan just across the Hudson. Hoboken is, in my opinion, the most amazing little city in the world. A mile square "large", it's the birthplace of baseball, Frank Sinatra and was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the most bars per square mile than any other town in the world. My kind of town. (Take a look at some Hoboken pictures that I've taken.)

I love shooting photos when I travel and take thousands of shots each year. My current camera of choice is a Nikon D40 compact digital SLR. I have over 4000 photos online over at my Flickr site.

Music is another big part of my life. I own over 800 albums and spent a good portion of my earlier years traveling the country watching bands (curiously enough, I have purchased less than 10 physical CDs in the last 2 year since I've moved completely to digital). From 1996 until 1998, I held various positions working within the music industry in and around New York City, particularly focusing on the college market for a good portion of those years.

I attended collage at Rutgers University, where I also spent 3 years teaching as an adjunct. I was trained as a computer engineer, but really haven't spent many days in my life working as one.

Some of my other interests include good food, beer and wine (love great beers), reading, movies (particularly indie films), cars (BMWs and Jeeps), baseball (Yankees partial season ticket holder for 7 years), NFL and college football (Giants, Michigan, Rutgers), trashy pop culture, and pretty much all of those cartoons that were made for adults (The Simpsons, Family Guy, etc.).

Me. In a nutshell.