Hi, I’m Greg!

I was born and raised in State College, Pennsylvania and attended State College Area High School. This is where I first became interested in both photography and technology, which became my main areas of study at Penn State. I dual majored in Information Sciences & Technology and Art (with a photography concentration) and graduated in May 2016. Learning about these topics came easily for me because they are also my most valued hobbies.

While at Penn State, I also completed the Humanitarian Engineering & Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) certificate program, where we identified and developed solutions to create value in developing countries. Before graduating, I had technology-centered internships with The Gateway Lodge in Cook Forest, Booz Allen Hamilton in Maryland, and Liberty Mutual in both Portsmouth, NH and Seattle, WA. My travels also include Panama and Honduras with Global Brigades, and Sierra Leone with HESE.

I finished my undergraduate degrees in May 2016. I currently work in Lubbock, Texas as a Network and Automation Engineer for Mandry Technology Solutions. In my spare time, I work with the Humane Society and and foster animals.

Publications

Information Technology for Development (May 2017)

Organizational models of mobile payment systems in low-resource environments

IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (San Jose, October 2014)

Making data collection in low-resource contexts intuitive, fun, and interactive

Projects

Website Development

I assist nonprofit organizations and my friends with creating their own customized, professional websites. I always use WordPress to build these sites, and I thoroughly enjoy seeing a web project come together. Sites I’ve created: Nutrition DeJunked, Deanna Nagle Photography, Louis Jablowski (Playwright), Good Heart Technology

DIY Server Cabinet and Standing Desk

In March 2018, after outgrowing my 8-bay drive enclosure, I was compelled to get a rack mounted solution. Unfortunately, a lot of the commercial racks were either far too expensive, or not what I needed. I did some searches and came across a few links to DIY server rack projects that I thought were super cool.

The Lonely Web

After hearing podcast by Joe Veix about content that had not seen the light of day, I was inspired to create a web service to seek out and display it. The purpose of this service is to bring those “lonely” pieces of content to the forefront and give them some love. It turns out they can be beautiful, wacky, and even sad.

Fathoming Our Future

This project was completed as an independent study during my last semester at Penn State, in May 2016. It a five-part video series outlining abstract concepts and takeaways extrapolated from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guartarii’s A Thousands Plateaus.

Photography

Check out my full gallery here.