Ian began his life with the Barbarian Group as an intern in the Boston office in early 2005, but he soon proved he was useful enough to be knighted as a full-fledged Barbarian. Before joining TBG, he found himself growing up in the adorable state of Rhode Island. It was in RI that Ian created his first site (“The Whack The Pud Contest”) at the tender age of 12. Later on in life he found work as a librarian for a group of archaeologists, who apparently rivaled the Barbarians in their drinking prowess. At some point he grew a beard.

Ian’s tasks at TBG include keeping tabs on a growing company’s ever-evolving server infrastructure, as well as helping care of the day-to-day IT problems that make some Barbarians yell technologically insensitive epithets at their computers. He’s also been known to write a few lines of code here and there. Ian has 1.5 degrees – an AS in Computer Science from Johnson & Wales and a BA in New Media from Emerson College. Aside from patience and street walkin’, he has skills in the realms of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and many other things not really worth mentioning here.

In 2007, Ian gave up the 2-car trolleys of Brookline in favor of the 8-car trains of Brooklyn and joined the ranks of the New York office. Rumors abound as to the reason for the move; Ian claims he was drawn to the vibrant cultural scene and world-class public transportation system, but his bosses seem to think it was because he “met a girl or something”.