###Personal

I’m originally from St. Louis, MO, but really grew up in New Providence, NJ (home). I spent a stint in Beijing, PRC but now hang my hat in Piscataway, NJ. I have three beautiful children: Chris (almost 3), Leila & Penny (both 1) and an amazing wife Lisa who holds everything together. Given the 3 small children, and immediate proximity from our current location to their grandparents I’m fairly rooted in NJ, though I love travel and do hope to someday be able to have a pushpin in my world map on every continent.

###Professional

I’m a [Rutgers University](http://www.rutgers.edu) graduate who is currently employed by the [CampusEAI Consortium](http://www.campuseai.org). My current focus is development of our myCampus social portal platform, and efforts around eLearning and [Sakai](http://www.sakaiproject.org) implementation, though I am also keenly interested in Web 2.0, online collaboration, and identity management issues.

I also perform independent consulting related to portals, learning management systems, enterprise architecture & object oriented design, open-source software and community involvement, and agile development practices.

I was [previously employed](http://jay.shao.org/archives/2005/01/26/gainfully-employed) with Rutgers Office of Instructional and Research Technology working on our Sakai implementation, and Enterprise Systems and Services as an Application Developer focused on the [myRutgers](http://my.rutgers.edu) portal, which is based on [uPortal](http://www.uportal.org) project, as well as Identity Management.