This site is currently in the middle of a major revamp. I've rewritten it in Ruby on Rails and still need to input a lot of data into my database (old site was PHP and not database-backed). Please take a look around, but realize that my portfolio is far from complete.
Hi, my name is Spike Grobstein. I'm a freelance artist, programmer, technophile and all-around geek. Currently living in Brooklyn, NY, I work as a systems engineer at one of the Big Four™ record labels and also work on a variety of side-projects.
I've got 10 years experience in offset printing and digital prepress and 6 years experience in screen printing and embroidery. I've been a hobbyist programmer for 15 years and have dabbled in most popular languages (PERL, C, ObjC, BASIC, PHP, Python, Ruby, BASH, AppleScript). I'm also an operating system slut and have been known to use everything from OSX to Linux to Windows to BeOS and everything in between.
I'm currently in the middle of several side projects including MobilizeMe, a voter mobilization tool written using Ruby on Rails. I'm involved in a number of open source projects and am a huge proponent of F/OSS. I'm highly proficient in PERL, PHP, C and AppleScript, on the programming end, and am a full-fledged guru in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Examples of my work are available as well as a complete résumé.