PlayStation

Managing a team that crafts fundamental experiences across PlayStation products. Scope includes design systems, accessibility, prototyping, internal design tools, commerce, subscriptions, search, voice, accounts, and player safety. Constantly refining the present while thinking big about the future.

Built an engineering team that acts as a technical partner to product designers across the design org at PlayStation. Design Technology builds feature prototypes for PS5, mobile, desktop, VR, and web in code integrated into real products, or using rapid prototyping tools. In addition the team creates bespoke design tools, plugins, and customizations to support collaboration, consistency, and accessibility.

Obscura Digital (acquired by Madison Square Garden)

Led a distributed team that designed and implemented hardware platforms behind large-scale immersive experiences for agency clients and MSG Sphere.

• Directed the production of playback systems for high-resolution video content using projection, LED, and traditional displays.
• Created and managed a team to build an ingestion and rendering pipeline to handle super-resolution content in a hybrid on-premises/cloud infrastructure.
• Negotiated multiple $1M+ vendor agreements for hardware and software.
• Managed a team that provided external and internal customer support for large-format video installations and custom VR tools.

Stimulant

Managed all technical disciplines of a digital agency across multiple offices, including software development, systems engineering, QA, deployment, and support. Deployed projects in the US, Europe, Asia, and Middle East.

• Recruited engineering staff, freelancers, and vendors, converging a broad set of capabilities to apply to client projects.
• Collaborated with sales and design teams to translate project requirements into realistic timelines and budgets which landed client engagements.
• Implemented standards for developing, testing, deploying, supporting, and documenting projects, ensuring robustness and 24/7 operation.
• Promoted R&D of environmental sensing technologies based on Bluetooth, RFID, ultra-wideband, and computer vision, which enabled interaction beyond touchscreens.
• Built monitoring and show-control tools like am/pmam/pm, RingmasterRingmaster, and XSPXSP to ensure continuous operation and reduce repetitive engineering tasks.
• Directed the engineering behind immersive projects at One World ObservatoryOne World Observatory, GenentechGenentech, OUE SkyspaceOUE Skyspace, and moremore, which have run continuously for years.

Co-founded a digital agency focused on emerging multi-user natural interaction paradigms. Implemented novel user interfacesnovel user interfaces using emerging hardware and software technologies.

• Architected and implemented production applications for Microsoft like Bing for SurfaceBing for Surface, Local Impact MapLocal Impact Map, and Project TuvaProject Tuva.
• Developed R&D projects and experiments like TouchTonesTouchTones, XRayXRay, and LoopLoopLoopLoop.

Microsoft

Architected and implemented high-polish demo applicationshigh-polish demo applications for the not-yet-announced Microsoft Surface touch table as a contractor.

• Embedded with the design team to translate static design comps into fluid, functioning software.
• Created bulletproof and flexible applications on prototype hardware and a rudimentary software toolkit.

Endquote

Worked as a freelance developer for digital agencies, leading front-end development of interactive web projects.

• Implemented projects with agencies like POSSIBLE, Second Story, and Belle & Wissell.
• Worked with clients like Microsoft, Starbucks, Comcast, The Smithsonian, Seattle University, and the University of Washington.
• Navigated the challenges of running a small business, including legal and financial concerns.

Smashing Ideas

Led the engineering of web-based interactive and gaming projects for clients such as Adobe, Disney, Nintendo, and Nickelodeon.

Saltmine

Led the development of web projects for clients such as Microsoft, Seattle's Best Coffee, Washington Mutual, and AT&T that pushed the boundaries of the web at the time.

Real Networks

Built marketing content for the high-traffic real.com site using the limited capabilities of early-generation browsers.