His interest in web developing began in the 1990s, when he designed a Geocities website about his favorite subject at the time, the fantasy series "Dragonlance." The site featured animated gifs and a star field background. At the time he thought that websites could never look cooler.
Throughout the early 2000s, Dominic was involved in several fun web design projects, including an early experiment in social networking. His amateur web design projects landed him a place in a small start-up company called S6 Design, which took on freelance projects for entrepreneurs and designed affordable vanity sites at a time when personal dot-coms were becoming extremely popular.
After the dissolution of S6 Design, Dominic worked for a few years as a freelancer, while holding full-time jobs as technical support for CompUSA, and, later, Comcast. During this time he began dabbling with back-end development, in PHP and MySQL. He built his first PHP site from scratch using the CodeIgniter framework in 2010, and has been gaining hands-on experience with back-end developing since.
Fun Fact: Dominic got the ideas for both of his children's names (Cale and Eva) from animated movies. He insists that this is only because they sound good.
