He began his career at Eastmedia in New York, where he helped develop the first OpenID server in Rails, before working as an Application Architect on motionbox.com. He is the author of Rails Refactoring to Resources, a Short Cut (e-book) for Addison Wesley and a co-author of the Rails Way. He has also spoken at Gotham Ruby Conference, RailsConf Europe, and Philly ETE.