Sean Carton

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Sean Carton was the Dean of the School of Design and Media at Philadelphia University and is the author of numerous books about the Internet and video games.

Surprisingly, Carton spent most of his formative years taking care of goats and sheep in Frederick, MD. Being a farmboy during his adolescence convinced him that the pastoral ideal was fundamentally flawed, and encouraged him to turn increasingly towards the potential of technology in his later career. (His sister's coronation as Farm Safety Queen did not dissuade him, nor did his first-place ribbon at the 4-H cake-baking contest.)

After college at University of Maryland Baltimore County, Carton took an ill-advised fundraising job at a Baltimore museum, where he tried to convince wealthy patrons to part with modest amounts of money--a job not unlike panhandling, only he wore a suit. At the same time, he attended graduate school at the University of Maryland, College Park, eventually achieving a master's degree solely due to his ability to translate Derrida into plain English. His poststructuralist mental contortions allowed him to move on to his next position, writing copy for a bunch of lunatic pyramid schemers in a midtown brownstone. His great work from this period was "Become A Wedding Planner." While other masterworks soon followed (including his independent work deciphering the intricacies of Mosaic 1.0), "Become a Wedding Planner" remains the seminal Carton text. (However, no copies survive.)

He went on to found the pioneering web development company Carton Donofrio Interactive, where his employees spent their time deciphering his enormous, 3-D, multi-tiered information architectures and, on occasion, inventing new products which would, unfortunately, never make it to market (such as the ill-fated "Pop Shot"--a combination of used coffee grounds and National Bohemian beer). During his tenure as head of CDI, Carton spent many months writing books, downing three hundred mini-moos on a bet, and avoiding the telephone. Hailed as a visionary, he inspired his employees to work independently to create some of the best web sites of the day, including porkshow.com.

Most recently, as Dean at Philadelphia University, Carton expanded his influence into the Greater Philadelphia Metroplex.

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