I’m currently a Web developer, and graphic designer. I’ve been doing this since about 1996.

History: I joined the Air Force after college as a meteorologist, mostly performing weather support and reconnaissance at interesting overseas locations. After an on-the-job injury, I was assigned to a cushy position at Cape Canaveral where I performed direct weather support for NASA, which included Space Shuttle, Titan, Delta, and Atlas rocket launches at Cape Canaveral.

I separated from the military after six years and moved to Seattle. Once I settled in, I got a job at a tiny company called Microsoft. I started off as a software test engineer, and moved up to software developer. After five years, I left Microsoft and went to work as a consultant for a few Dot Coms where the money was much better, and the hours were reasonable.

Soon after that, the Dot Com bubble burst. At which point, I realized that there were too many people with high-tech skills, and very few companies left to hire them. The company I was working for at the time was laying off people in waves. I was let go immediately after they laid off the executives. They decided to gave me a “tin parachute” package as a parting gift for all my hard work, which I used to start my own company.

Since starting my business, I’ve been consulting and building websites for clients. Recently, I’ve shifted to building sites for myself, and keeping up-to-date on search engine optimizations, which I apply to those site. The majority of the sites I build now revolve around affiliate programs, which sells and/or advertises products or services for other companies. It’s a lot of work to setup, but once it’s up, I earn money when I sleep. You can’t beat that.

Aside from my Internet work, I also occasionally do voice over work, including promos, radio imaging & station id, announcements, commercials, podcasts, and character voices.

In addition to everything above, I’ve also been a DJ on and off over the past 20 years. Playing clubs in Seattle Washington, Phoenix Arizona, Melbourne Florida, Champaign/Chicago Illinois, and Frankfurt Germany. The Genres ranged from Hip-Hop to Techno to Rock to Country, but never at the same time. =)

I’m currently living in the beautiful Northern Idaho panhandle, in a place that most people elsewhere can’t pronounce. Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The air is clean, the people are nice, the cost of living is cheap, and the crime rate is lower than most other places. It’s a great place to live.

So now you know a little more about me. Those were the highlights. I decided to leave out the parts of me sleeping in cardboard boxes and selling blood in exchange for food and internet access. Nobody wants to hear that.

Yours Truly,
-Trystian Sky