Born in the Nutmeg State (thats Connecticut for the uninitiated), Stew has worked since graduating from Boston College as a Developer in many different arenas: e-commerce, social networking, content management, glorified business cards, and client-facing web services. As a young lad, he picked up a copy of “CodeWarrior: Learn To Program” and never looked back, developing programs in C, C++, Java, PHP, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails, although to be honest, he really only did it to make video games. Cliche? Yes. Did it lead to awesome? You bet.

Before entering the “corporate world”, he started his own company, Kazoo Interactive (hey – it’s a working name), in order to build applications in the social space – particularly in social media and social education. Believing that social networks have the profound power to deliver user experience above and beyond the current standard by providing applications information about what behavior users’ would prefer, he hopes sincerely that the major players today don’t ruin the future party for everyone. He still pursues these (yet unannounced) ventures in his private time, along with amateur screen-writing.

He is a devotee to the idea of software running in a browser, and loudly applauds technologies such as HTML5 and “the coming of sweet greatness”, although they may have a long way to go.