I am an unabashedly geeky pop-culture aficionado who loved my cartoon-permeated 80s childhood as much as my grunge-tinged 90s adolescence.

I am incredibly thankful for the five years I spent working at a Virginia-based record store and the summer I spent as a PR intern for a New York-based record label where I developed a genuine appreciation of not only diverse music, but also of diverse people.

I am a dotcom crash survivor who inadvertently spent 20 experience- and memory-filled years in the hospitality and travel industry as a jack-of-all-trades in content development, design, marketing, operations, and product management.

I am inexplicably mistaken for things that I am not, including a Spanish-speaking priest, a Boston Marathon winner, a UFC fighter, and, umm, a sibling of Jeremy Lin.

I am not Daenerys Targaryen, but if I were, I might be announced as:

“Solver of problems. Gatherer of people. Builder of unusual offset guitars. Director of metaphorical cruises. Designer of eclectic board game customizations. Baker of chocolate banana bundt breads. Killer of Fortnite bots. Champion of Oxford commas. Thaumaturge of instant ramen.”