I am a technologist, educator, software developer, and composer based in the Seattle area. In prior versions of me, I was a music professor in Montana, a lead instructor at an industry-leading code academy in Seattle, and a software engineer at Microsoft… and I’m always ready for the next iteration. As a wise man once said, “Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’.”
I am a currently a 2x doggy-daddy (Mavis, Janet) and a 5x kitty-daddy (Trillian, Aloysius, Agador, Barnacle, Asta) and share a home on the west side of Puget Sound (in forested Kitsap County near Olalla) with my wife Kimberly and our fur fam. Previously, I have lived in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Montana, New York (twice… near Syracuse as a kid and in Buffalo in grad school), and Tennessee.
I am not the “Sam Hamm” of Batman (1989 version) movie fame, though there have been mixups in the past with fans and also rights management entities. I once received a $1.29 royalty statement from ASCAP for his lyrical contributions to the film Monkeybone. Shunning wealth and fame, I returned the check and clarified the lyricist credit, although I really do wish I could say that I had written “The Whistling Booty Train Song”. We’ve never met, but we’re now connected via social media.