I was born and raised in El Paso TX US, and lived for 13 years in San Francisco, CA (1, 2, 3, 4, 5),  and returned to El Paso TX US in 2011.

What keeps me busy?

• I write and record music (see Music Work below).

• I occasionally take photos (including places).

• I love the outdoors!  I primarily hike, but mountain biking, ziplining, horseback riding are also great.

• I do remixes, master albums, and sometimes do soundtrack work.

• I play the occasional videogame.

• I run a Mastodon instance for musicians. I used to run Mastodon instance for musicians.  Read more here.

• I post the occasional video, and shoot the occasional drone music video.

• I (occasionally) drink fancy beer and sometimes cook (Lemon Pasta recipe).

• I'm game for whatever else sounds like fun.

I'm married to Angie Reza Tures, with an awesome kiddo and three trouble-making cats.

Work

• I currently work for this large tech company.

  • Previously IT here.

  • Before those I worked various odds and ends like laptop assembly lines or doing retail.  

  • I've also had some unusal internships at architects, structural engineering firms (where ended up doing mostly IT because lol I'm in no position to design buildings without experience) or did a handyman type work at a small airport.  I nearly went to pilot school after high school and wonder what my life would have been going down that route.

  • I found my IT calling pretty early (full-time work halfway through college) and thus I ended up finishing my degree in a hobby from University of San Francisco, which is Media Studies (media production / filmmaking / audio etc).

• At my current job, I first worked in IT and subsequently videoconferencing platforms engineering.  I accidentally co-invented GVC (history, video) (a ubiquitous term inside my company), an internal videoconferencing room appliance-like platform that was later refactored to become Meet Devices.  These days I manage a small team looking after software, networks and infrastructure used to enable very large self-service AV spaces (techtalks) and bespoke AV experiences and similar interesting AV tech.

I've also worked from home since 2011 and I have some advice for anyone in a similar situation.

DM me on social media if you want to talk.

Kyiv Radio

Moody, textural electronic music, 2002-Current

Responsibilities: Write, Perform, Record, Master.

Note: this was previously known as "Kiev Radio", but I fixed the name in 2022.

Silk Trade

Electronic / Rock three piece with Sean Keating and George Strompolos, 2006-2010

Responsibilities: Bass and Keyboards, Engineering and Production

Navarone

Post-something Punk / Rock - 2005-2006

Responsibilities: Guitar, Songwriting, Engineering

Broadcast Engine 

Punk / Rock / Post-something - specialized in playing demolition parties, 2004-2005

Responsibilities: bass guitar, engineering

Metamusicland 

Solo Project: High School and College

Responsibilities: Write, Perform, Record, Master.