Hi, I’m Devin Reams. I’m a twenty-something living in Denver, Colorado. I manage projects at Crowd Favorite, an independent web development and consulting firm. I also founded and write for Colorado Snow.

Quick Facts

• I grew up in Colorado, studied here, and don’t intend to leave.
• I love to ski and I’m slowly learning to golf.
• I have visited every continent except Antarctica (but, it’s on the list).
• I’m an Eagle Scout.
• I thought I was going to be a park ranger when I grew up.
• I love simplicity.

Notable

• I organized the first WordCamp Denver in February 2009. WordCamp is a conference about WordPress. Matt shot some decent pictures of me.
• I wrote the song and lyrics to It’s Called WordPress and created the accompanying music video (not sure if this is good or not)
• My brother, Branden, and I appeared on “the show ” by ze frank near the end (June 2006)
• I was interviewed by Mint for their personal finance blog
• I’ve built many of the default wiki templates and sample wikis for pbWiki.
• I was cited by Freakonomics author and economist Steven Levitt on his New York Times blog
• I was interviewed by Human Resource Executive for their November 2007 issue in the article: The Millenial Mind-Set
• I created the original WordPress theme design and logo for Employee Evolution. I also contributed in the early-days by writing articles for Employee Evolution.
• I was interviewed by the Denver Post about the ‘No Gas Day’ concept in May 2007
• I co-authored and published an article on The Ethical Issues Surrounding Wi-Fi in March 2007.
• I was mentioned on the Tom Peters (management expert) blog
• I’ve been listed as an ‘alltop’ blogger for twenty somethings and skiing
• I helped Noah Kagan organize one of the more successful conferences around social communities called CommunityNext.
• I like to think that I helped popularize the “biphasic sleep“, (aka “nap”) concept in February 2006
• I participated in the first StartupWeekend held in Boulder, CO
• I worked for two ISPs from 1999-2001 where I taught myself about Unix, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and supporting customers.
• I contributed as a technical writer to the Unreal IRC daemon a long time ago
• I volunteered as an editor for Jeremy Wright’s book, Blog Marketing
• I created the blog badge for Twenty Something bloggers

Technology

• MacBook Air, first generation
• 24″ Dell monitor
• Sonos music system
• iPhone, first generation on T-Mobile
• Canon Digital Rebel XSi
• Kindle 2
• Nintendo Wii

Contact

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