sipofwater.com is written and maintained by a technology, business, and social media enthusiast based in beautiful kelowna, bc.

jake has worked primarily as a web architect dabbling in database design and administration, web application design and implementation, website maintenance and updates, web server administration, and internet development, programming and scripting. he has a diploma in information technology and was working on his bachelor of technology towards his mot mba when deciding that the enterprise world is not for him.

while working primarily on a windows-based environment in the enterprise, he has always maintained a portfolio of lamp-based websites developed in php. he has taken courses on and learned varying programming, scripting and markup languages while continue to evolve into a senior php architect learning and implementing advanced php topics.

learning about business, both in historical and entrepreneurial sense, jake enjoys keeping up on internet businesses thru magazines such as Inc., Fast Company, Revenue, php|architect, and Unlimited. having started to pickup the pulse of the internet in 1995, jake has seen a lot of trends come and go over the years as an internet technologist.

jake moved to kelowna in 2008 to support his partners phd schooling at UBC Okanagan. in his spare time, he enjoys likes to collect hockey cards, photography, gaming and spending time with his family.