Team Details

Retired in 2013 from Chase as the Director of UX Research, my training is in Applied Socio-Cultural Anthropology, which I still practice (Pro Bono) on occasion. Besides volunteering at the Shoreline Tool Library, which I helped co-found and serving on the Steering Committee, I serve as aTech Partner volunteer role at Holocaust Center for Humanity, I am active in our local CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), the Severe Weather Shelter, part-time chef and Web consultant for the Tales of the Alchemysts Theatre, and others. I keep threatening to become a docent at Cascadia Art Museum.

Besides endless house projects, my most fun often involves painting (acrylics) in the middle of the night (I’ve just started my 3rd year with a brush), so, as a night person, I’ve some difficulty with early morning gigs 😍.

I’ve read dozens of books on the holocaust and WW II in the last 3 years but I’m still failing woefully to keep up with the reading pace of Marcy Bloom, my partner in adventure. Although much of my reading has been to the backdrop of Nazi stolen art, I highly recommend anything by Laura Morelli. Popular astro-physics is also a favorite genre.

We recently returned from 6 weeks touring art, museums, and holocaust sites in Stockholm, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Warsaw, and Krakow. It was even more life changing than our recently added bidets.