I am a professional full stack developer with about 20 years of experience creating software, firmware and graphics for projects in many different media including web apps, video installations and live performances. I've professionally mostly done web development, but I'm not bad at circuit design and hardware as well. I am currently a lead engineer at Upstatement.
At Upstatement I am a senior IC with a broad range of responsibilities. I am the primary technical contact for clients on most projects, and create technical briefs and strategy to accompany designs. Then I work with designers to build world class experiences and editorial tools for clients large and less large.
I worked for the Digital Experience Team within Magic Leap to create marketing materials and strategy. My primary task was to architect and create fantastic 3D homepage experiences to accompany the initial product launch of the Magic Leap One.
At Barbarian, I created performant websites and interactive work for global brands. Below are a few selected projects.
For Google, we ported their Androidify character creator app to a web-based one that ran on everything from mobile devices to the largest screen in Times Square. This site sadly just went down, but was active for almost a decade. It's mostly functional here on the wayback machine (bless them and their fine work).
For Samsung, I created layouts and checkout tools for their main US product site and managed live deployment during Black Friday sales for their smart watch product line. I also did engineering and architecture for their Secret Sites internet scavenger hunt, and hardened it after some clever players used recent DNS purchases in the early days.
For Pepsi, we recreated The Oregon Trail as a web and mobile game called The Crystal Pepsi Trail, and packed it to the gills with 90s references. Shorty Award
For a few years I worked as an independent contractor on web projects for Panoptic Communications, The Barbarian Group, CIDC, comedian Eugene Mirman and others. I also worked as a contractor installing network and video cable and building server racks for several editing studios in New York City.
After graduating from Temple University, I worked in a small web production shop in Philadelphia on projects for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, AIA Philadelphia and several other local design and architecture firms.
I earned my bachelor's degree in Film and Media Arts from Temple University in Philadelphia. During my time there, I focused on interactive media, installation work and performance. I worked with Professor Sarah Drury on eVokability, a performance piece made in collaboration with disabled artists that employed costumes with embedded sensors that measured performers' movements to drive live projections and sound. We later collaborated again on Violet Fire, a multimedia opera about Nikola Tesla, which played at the national theater in Belgrade and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
At Palmer & Dodge I performed hardware maintenance, network administration and server construction over the summer for several years in high school and some of college. I learned a lot in a short time, and worked my way up from clearing printer jams to building custom linux servers.