About me
Hi I’m Kyle, and I’m an athlete on the US World Cup Skeleton team and a 2014 Winter Olympic Hopeful. This site is kind of like my digital living room. I talk about skeleton, traveling, and the web, but you should probably follow me on twitter for a better idea of who I am.
In short
I enjoy working with story, language, design, and code to create things. I have a fondness for all things digital, but I also have a range of eclectic interests including athletics, aviation, design, entrepreneurship, filmmaking, music, reading, and travel. Between traveling the world and drinking too much Red Bull, I’m building a portfolio of businesses that maximize my time and personal freedom.
In depth
For almost a decade I’ve been an athlete on the US National Skeleton team. I’m currently ranked 3rd in the United States, and I’m working hard to earn a spot on the 2014 Olympic team.
Besides sliding headfirst down an ice track at 85mph, I’m an avid writer. I recently completed a 50,000 word draft of a children’s novel for National Novel Writing Month. I’m currently writing an ebook about designing websites on the iPad, as well as planning a web magazine for the sliding community.
At one time or another I’ve studied Chemistry, Mathematics, Finance, Computer Science, Meteorology, English, and History. I’ve attended five schools, from community college to the Ivy League, most recently ending a 6-week stint at the University of Illinois. Despite the best of intentions, I never got much out of the experience and prefer to remain an autodidact.
I pursued acting for a while, working as an extra on productions such as Transformers 2, Gossip Girl, CSI:NY, and When in Rome. No, it wasn’t real acting but it was a fun experience. I still harbor dreams of renting a RED camera and shooting an independent movie someday.
I discovered the web in 1995 at the age of 14, during the days of Prodigy dialup. Today I’m a self-taught designer/developer with experience in HTML, CSS, Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and more recently Objective-C. While I prefer working on the web, my focus is shifting to the mobile space. In 2010 I cofounded a software company focused on Mac and iOS apps. We’ve been featured three times by Apple and have sold thousands of copies of Moodboard, our creative design tool for the iPad. I’m fortunate to get paid to do what I love, even while I’m sleeping.
About the site
This website was handcrafted on a 13″ MacBook Air using Coda, Pixelmator, and Adobe Fireworks. All pixels, code, and content on this site are fresh with the latest web standards. The main typeface is CamingoDos by Jan Fromm, delivered courtesy of Typekit. The site is powered by WordPress and hosted by Dreamhost.
The majority of my writing takes place in a Moleskine, but I’ve recently become enamored with Scrivner.