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I originally discovered WordPress in 2005. At first, I was not overly impressed and sort of saw it as “yet another blogging platform”, like the many others that were popping up at the time. But because I am an open source enthusiast, I followed the project. By mid/late 2006, I had become fairly impressed with the project, so I started my first WordPress blog. By early 2007, I had fallen irrevocably n love with WordPress. I began building small throwaway sites, for the sole purpose of learning everything I could about WordPress.
In 2009, after working countless dead-end factory and temp jobs, I decided to start taking WordPress more seriously and began working towards making it a career. I started doing freelance jobs building sites for local businesses, then spent some time freelancing on UpWork. In 2013, I started the Des Moines WordPress Meetup group. That same year I started a small shared hosting company called HostMagi. As life was super busy at the time, the company kind of got put to the side.

In 2014 I attended and spoke at my first WordCamp, WordCamp Omaha. Shortly after that, I was hired by InMotion Hosting where I spent a year before moving to Missouri and eventually going to work for A2 Hosting. Then in 2017, I was hired by Pressable where I worked as a customer success engineer. Later in 2017, I founded WP Top Hat to bring my vision of WordPress maintenance and hosting to the WordPress community. I sold WP Top Hat in 2019.

My first company, Host Magi, had continued to serve customers during this time, but without a major focus on growth, more or less as a hobby. In 2023,I decided to revive and reinvent Today Host Magi exists as the most comprehensive and complete managed WordPress platform available by offering features that usually require multiple providers in a single platform.

I continue to contribute to the WordPress community by speaking at WordCamps, teaching WordPress to others for free, and participating in various WordPress forums, slack groups, and social media.