Chris and Murrah Dragon

The 2empowerFM Plugin Family began as a single in-house plug-in at The Children's Nature Institute in early 2006. In January 2008, Chris founded Dracoventions to bring the power of his plug-in to the public. In May 2009, Dracoventions became a full-time operation.

Since age 8 (over 25 years ago), Chris has spent much of his free time writing software. He started with Apple Basic, then moved on to C++, Visual Basic, Java, PHP, and many other languages. Always a pioneer and software inventor, Chris created a web-browser-like terminal program before the web was invented and wrote a web-server scripting language before many people had heard of such a thing.

Over the course of five years as Senior Software Engineer at CollegeClub.com, Chris tied together an ancient database with modern web servers, created web-based email before Hotmail, and wrote a telephone-control application to read that email to college users. This was all before he returned to U.C. Santa Cruz to complete his B.S. in Computer Science with the hope of getting a competitive job at an environmental organization.

With such experience, founding a software company may have been inevitable. His wife, Murrah, is an artist and helps with logos, graphics, and encouragement. Chris still works one day a week at The Children's Nature Institute, a non-profit charity where he can fulfill some his passion for environmentalism.