Here’s a bunch of stuff about me:

• I’m married to Keturah and we have a son - Mason
• And we have a second son coming in August
• We live in Half Moon Bay, California
• I’ve worked at NASA Ames Research Center since 2001. Currently, my interest is in helping NASA to embrace blogging as a tool for improving internal communications as well as being a strategy to engage with the public and participate online.
• I’m currently working at Stanford University. Focusing on deploying collaborative web tools within the enterprise; participating with the university’s strategy on Facebook and other social networks; and integrating Twitter with Reunion Homecoming Weekend
• I graduated from the University of Vermont in 1993
• I grew up in Connecticut
• I’ve lived in the Bay Area since 1999 after living in Tempe, Arizona from ‘94-’99.
• I once flew from San Francisco to Boston and took a taxi directly from the airport to Fenway Park in order to camp out all night and buy Red Sox-Yankees tickets in the morning
• French fries - can’t imagine a world without them
• If my house was on fire, I would first make sure my family was safe then see if it was possible to run back in and save my iPod
• I used to take vacations that basically involved traveling to Phish concerts. That time they played a set starting at midnight and ending at sunrise on January 1, 2000 - I was there.
• I love all sports, but there’s really only two teams that can make me scream with joy: Boston Red Sox and UConn Huskies’ mens basketball.
• Before discovering the web, I used to teach tennis for a living
• My first regularly salaried job after finishing my college degree was delivering for Pizza Hut
• When I win the lottery, I’m going to travel the world and shoot photographs.
• I’m building a photoblog over at http://www.solidether.com
• I think blogging can make the world a better place.
• So can solar power.

And here’s a picture of me with my family. That’s me in the middle, my wife Keturah is the pretty one on the left side of the picture and I’m holding Mason - our pride and joy.

OK…so if you want some corporate style bio of me, here’s one that I wrote very recently.

J.J. Toothman is a passionate web technologist with over 10 years of experience crafting online strategies within a number of industries and pairing them with all-star web solutions and professional implementations. He recently began working at Stanford University where he holds the title of Senior Web Technologist in the Office of Development

From 2001 to 2007, he held the position of Web Services Manager at NASA Ames Research Center. While at NASA, he implemented numerous open source software solutions and web applications in addition to evangelizing and integrating web standards within software development teams. In 2007, he led the strategic definition, content development process implementation, and website development of NASA Ames’ first official public blog.

In 2005, J.J. completed a Master of Arts degree in Multimedia by developing Luminance, an interactive art installation that explores non-tethered physical human interaction with digital content. J.J. has previous experience with e-commerce dot-coms and global interactive adverting agencies where he produced web projects for diverse brands such as Proctor & Gamble, Palm Computing, and Barclays Global Investors. When not online, he can be found spending time with his family, experiencing the great outdoors of Northern California, and exploring his love for black-and-white photography.