User:Blicarea

My name is Alex Moore. I am an American web analyst, developer, digital marketer, and sometimes-ecumenist. I am the Analytics Manager at LunaMetrics, a digital marketing consultancy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I am a 2011 graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, receiving my M.Phil in Ecumenics at the Irish School of Ecumenics. My Masters thesis, entitled The Mountain Menace: Anti-Catholic Prejudices in Appalachia, was a study of both the historic and modern-day struggles of Roman Catholics in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, eastern and southern Ohio, and eastern Kentucky. In 2008 I graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh Honors College, with a triple major in Philosophy, Classics, and English Literature.

I was born in Washington, Pennsylvania and raised in nearby Canonsburg. I was educated in the Canon-McMillan School District throughout my entire childhood, graduating from Canon-McMillan High School in 2004. In 2000 I founded Red Colony, which became the world's largest Mars colonization and terraforming website. I attended Pitt in 2004 and joined the Pitt Band, where I met my wife, Sarah. I was active in Kappa Kappa Psi, an honorary band fraternity, and Eta Sigma Phi, an honorary classics society. In the summer of 2006, I studied Biblical Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, having received a Nationality Rooms scholarship. In Israel and the West Bank I witnessed first-hand the war with Lebanon. In 2007 I hitchhiked throughout Europe and Egypt.

After graduating from Pitt in 2008, two friends and I received a grant as part of the inaugural class of AlphaLab, a startup incubator in Pittsburgh. We co-founded Chogger, a comic-strip creation Web 2.0 site. Later that year I co-founded Stone & Steel Investments LLC, a real-estate renovation and lessor company. Our company owns and maintains a rental family home in the Perry Hilltop neighborhood of Pittsburgh and another in Canonsburg. Some recent personal web projects of mine include the World Directory of Churches and Blicarea.

From 2009-2010, while studying in Dublin, I had the opportunity to travel extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East. I presented at a World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) conference in Berlin, and traveled again to a WSCF conference in Kiev. I traveled to Armenia, the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia (country), a journey which magnified my passion for Eastern Europe, religion in the Soviet Union, and the Caucasus. After our wedding in 2010, my wife and I honeymooned through Central Europe and the Balkans. We also traveled together to Romania to teach English and attend another WSCF conference in Miclăușeni. Some of my travels can be found in my blog, available here.