I design technical systems and run the teams that build them.
Since 2013 I have worked across embedded firmware, control systems, and production software, and across the teams and organizations that ship them. The constant is integration: deciding how separate parts fit together, then building the parts that do not exist yet.
system
Engineering
Embedded firmware, control and show systems, production software, networking, and the integrations between them.
I specify how a system fits together and then build the parts nobody else is covering — regularly in hardware and codebases I have not seen before. The recurring job is making separate things work as one: a factory floor and an accounting system, a lighting rig and a live music cue, sixty independent controllers and one flock.
Leadership
Ten years at one company, from a junior engineer who had never written code to IoT Director.
Hiring, managing managers, running several product teams at once, and owning what ships. Most of the work is translating between technical and non-technical groups until both are describing the same system — which is also what makes me useful to artists and clients who have never specified engineering work before.
Teams
Assembling and running the group that does the work, paid or volunteer.
Recruiting, scoping, scheduling, fundraising, and keeping momentum through builds that run for a year. I am better at coordinating engineers, fabricators, and artists than at being any one of them, and the projects here are almost never mine alone.
Selected work
- Fable BoundA twenty-foot hull that pitched on pneumatics, sequenced by MIDI from a live Ableton set.
- The Seventh GateA twenty-foot stupa you can climb, and six gates that notice you walking through them.
- WMDEurorack synthesizers and guitar pedals, with a side of systems and firmware.