CivicActions

A. J. Roach is a database consultant and web engineer for CivicActions LLC. After receiving a degree in Computer Science with a concentration in hyper-text media from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1998, A. J. spent a couple of years working as a database engineer for start-ups in Virginia and Washington, DC, before moving out west to San Francisco to split his time between working as a touring singer-songwriter and a programmer and database designer for Manex and ESC, the visual FX houses responsible for The Matrix trilogy and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. In 2003, A. J. decided to make performing his full-time occupation. After performing more than 400 shows in the United States and Europe from 2003 to 2005, AJ joined the CivicActions team in the summer of 2005. He splits his time between changing the world using folk music, and changing it through the use of technology.