I'm an artist, hacker, jeweler, teacher, musician, public speaker, travel junkie, Girl Scout, and Onsite Community Manager for a large apartment complex in Beaverton, OR. This combination of old and new world skills provide me an ability to see things in unique ways. My skills at project management, creative thinking, and an ability to work with people from all walks of life help me in bringing projects to fruition. Whether it's meticulously fabricating a silver teapot with hundreds of rounds of soldering and annealing; integrating technology such as RFID into wearable, interactive jewelry or teaching workshops, I get stuff done.Being an artist is serious business. While producing jewelry for my business, I'm in charge of Production, Finance, Sales & Marketing, and, above all, Customer Service. Inventory control is critical to my bottom line, as is recovering every scrap and filing. Providing my customers with certified 100% recycled precious metals and conflict-free, fair trade gemstones requires constant research and verification.As a hacker, I engage with mad scientists working in cutting edge technology. I'm interested in how the virtual world is changing identity and identification, how modeling and ontology are enabling the simplification of complex information, and all the ways one can make things explode. Seriously - if you place a banana in liquid nitrogen for a moment, then hit it with hammer, you can send fragments of frozen banana everywhere. This is truly awesome... as long as you clean it up before it melts. Lesson learned? Check.