The Core Stuff
I am an avid,lifelong boater and boat lover. I dabbled extensively with yacht design in high school and have recently gotten back into it more seriously. I built a boat when I was 16 and recently completed building the first boat to my own design,an 18′skin-on-frame outrigger canoe I have named AL DEMANY CHIMAN.
My current on-going design project is an 18′outrigger canoe. I also began a 35′double-ended racer-cruiser sloop in the “Spirit of Tradition”mold as part of a design class I took at the Wooden Boat School. Not sure when I’ll get that going again. My design interest is in naturally-powered small boats,ideally marrying elements of traditional craft (especially “indigenous”boats) with modern technology to make beautiful but high-performance boats.
Elsewhere Online
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Professional Information
The last blog above is for work. When not writing Chine bLog,I am a Managing Director and consultant in internet strategy with Forum One Communications in Alexandria,VA. Sites/projects I am working on or have worked on include:
- Collaborative strategy development for alumni network of Rare Pride,a conservation-focused social marketing NGO (in progress)
- Design and development management for two initiative sub-sites for the National Wildlife Federation:Green Hour and the Great American Backyard Campout.
- Web site redesign for the National Council of La Raza,the nation’s largest Hispanic advocacy group. I led the strategy and managed the program.
- Strategy and redevelopment of main site for the Center for Global Development,an international development think-tank.
- Numerous strategy and design projects for the World Bank
- Multiple strategy projects for the Population Reference Bureau,including management of the development of the Population &Health InfoShare site.
- Redesign of the main web site for environmental education organization Earth Force
