I grew up in St. Louis, becoming a true Cardinals fan by age 12. My favorite player was Tom Lawless. Had you asked me why, at age 12 I would've told you "because he's a pitcher who can hit." (Secretly, it was also because his name was Tom.) My Cardinals fandom was short-lived, however, due to the players striking and my family moving out of Missouri.

When I went to MIT, I quickly converted to a Red Sox fan, an allegiance that survived multiple moves (including 2 years in New York) and several heart-breaking seasons. I went back to MIT a couple more times to get an MEng at the Media Lab and an MBA at MIT Sloan.

After Sloan, I moved to San Francisco to work for Google. A few years later I moved to Zürich, where I still am, serving as director of product management for search, client, and infrastructure products in Europe. (To date, my mom's favorite thing I've done at Google is this blog post.) Of course, the site you're on now is my personal website, so the views expressed on these pages do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.

I'm also on FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm on other sites too, but those are the ones I tend to actually use.