Jared has a passion for leveraging technology to make a difference in the lives of individuals and organizations.  He holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of California at San Diego, where he also started his first web consulting business and was a finalist for a Macromedia student design award.  His previous work experience includes Blatant Creative, Websense, and E-Factor Media.  While he has varied experience with a wide diversity of programming languages, he currently has no desire to code anything but Ruby.

When AFK, Jared enjoys a good game of ultimate, wakeboarding and playing guitar.  He currently resides in Costa Mesa, CA.