I work for pay selling reclaimed building materials as the store manager at ReUse Action in Buffalo. ReUse Action is a for-profit continuation of Buffalo ReUse, a not-for-profit we founded in 2006. We’ve recently regained control over the Buffalo ReUse not-for-profit.
I’m also responsible for communications, promotion and publicity and a fair portion of the technology. I direct our web presence and I manage and maintain The Guild @980, a business incubator we run in our building on Buffalo’s East Side.
I’m a co-founder of The Foundry, a business incubator and makerspace, started up in 2012. I have a continuing interest in small business, startups, craft and small-scale manufacturing.
My community initiatives on the Web are the Preservation-Ready Sites website, which I started in 2013, and Brick Streets, a revival of an earlier list of Buffalo’s brick and stone streets.
I’m on Mastodon Social as @kevinphayes. I write a blog post here from time to time, but I’m just not voluble enough to be a frequent blogger. I like the ideas of IndieWeb, fundamentally “Control your own stuff”, but haven’t found the bandwidth to explore it more fully.
