Virtual reality has been talked about for decades, but high costs have limited it to the military. The Oculus Rift will change that. It's a $300 consumer VR headset that will be available next year. It recently set records on kickstarter when it raised $2.5M. We are one of a few on their partner list and have early access to a development kit. With it, physical feedback, and tracking techniques that we're developing, a game of laser tag will become an unprecedented immersive experience.

Creating educational kids games for tablets and smart phones. Shape Sort is now available for the iPad and coming soon to iPod touch and the Kindle Fire. The first prototype of this game was made as a Christmas present for for my 2 year old son, Tommy. He's gotten very good at dragging and loves when I turn the color of the shapes purple.

An open source object-orientated framework for the PHP programming language. Designed to simplify database interaction and to organize PHP code. I started this framework while rebuilding GameTraderWorld.com in an effort to better organize my work and make it useful for future projects.

As the coach for the Melrose Middle School VEX Robotics team, I help students expand their knowledge and enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). In 2012, we competed in the World Championships. This year, our team grew from 2 students to 14. We made two robots and one earned the Judge's award at a high school match and the other the Design Award.

Since being exposed to 3D Studio Max in high school, I've had a passion for creating and rendering 3D scenes. I am now a proud user of Blender, the open source 3D modeling and animation software. Check out some of my work.