Career
He also wrote one of the very first eXtensible Markup Language parsers in JavaScript. He began working on Jabber in 1998. He began developing the software on his farm in Iowa.
Later, he attended Iowa State University where he studied computer and electrical design.
He broke off his studies early in 1995 to join an Internet startup company. In May 2007, he was also hired at Wikia to be technical lead for a project to create an open search engine called Wikia Search.
He is from Cascade, Iowa, and currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
