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B.A., Sociology with a minor in Science, Technology, and Society, 2010, The University of Texas at Austin
M.B.A., Business Analytics, 2024, Midwestern State University (TX)
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Praying Dublin 🙏
Ireland is known as the motherland for a very sizable of the Catholic migration to America. The Catholic Church in Ireland is going through a time of transition, and rightfully so. Between actual abuses and difficulty remaining relevant in the day-to-day lives of the Irish, Catholicism is often only a cultural practice, not including a truly religious…
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Eating Dublin 🍴
While I did plenty of walking in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪, I also ate and drank plenty. The city, as any urban hub does, had a variety of options, including more than a couple Tex-Mex/Mexican restaurants. I could not bring myself to try any Tex-Mex from Ireland though. On Sunday morning, I was alone, just finished…
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Walking Dublin 🏃
Last week, I was in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 for a meetup with the teams that support a variety of our plugins and services for self-hosted WordPress sites, like Jetpack, Akismet, VaultPress, Sensei, Gravatar, etc etc. Usually, on meetups, I wake up extremely early, since I do at home, geek out doing random PRs or whatever,…
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Belize 🇧🇿
In February, I traveled to Belize to meet up with members of the Jetpack development team at Automattic. We worked on various things—outlining the next few versions, building out some enhanced debug/support tools—but also able to enjoy the beautiful Belizean coast. Next up, recap of our Dublin meetup last week. P.S. We’re hiring.
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Connections at SXSW
This is what I love about representing WordPress(.com) “in the field” at SXSW. After a long evening working an event, we had a couple of guys sit at the bar with myself and a couple of coworkers. When we were asked what we do, we answered “Vague Internet Things”. “That’s great—as long as it isn’t…
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Credit Confusion
I have an old credit card. I got it in college and I almost never use it. Every blue moon, I’ll use it when making a purchase and the funds aren’t immediately available. See, I have a checking and a savings account and all the money is in the savings account… Anyhow and in other words,…