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We offer multimodal design consulting services to individuals and small groups. Past and current clients have included cellists, furniture designers, graphic designers, and other such like-minded individuals. Our vertically-integrated design process is all-encompassing, from high-minded napkin sketches to obsessive production details, allowing each praximal element in our work to inform the others -- we leverage minutia, maximizing awesomeness.

Built hybrid native-iOS and embedded Angular interface elements for larger government contractors to be integrated and deployed in-house, for the purpose of rapid high-volume data display and analysis by principal stakeholders in the organizations. Backend data was surfaced through bespoke microservices (often produced ad-hoc, with the interactive team helping the backend team during crunch-time) and crunched data close to realtime by caching numpy and numexpr results in large in-memory HDF5 stores. Security clearance hurdles made the use of tools such as Git, JIRA, Jenkins, and other “household-name” tools an order of magnitude more involved than on a comparable private-sector project – but the project, for all its novel foibles, could never be called rote or boring by any of us.

New York, Ny, Us

Designed and implemented a social-network-backed CRM, from the database schema on up through the RESTful API and frontend nuances.

New York, Us

Designed, built and integrated custom widgets for a proprietary M&A deal-sourcing platform. The goal was the creation of a uniquely unobtrusive standard for interface design while considering the particular minutiae of the user bases' UX expectations. The overwhelming majority of production took place in JavaScript or Django-inflected Python.

Designed and implemented a contemporary standards-based web-based interface for MCDC’s digital archives, using a wide range of technologies, from SQL to jQuery. Conducted usability studies with studio administrators. Trained staff members in the use of the new system.

I built a collection of animate, interactive interfaces to facilitate promotions for Paganucci Wolfington's clients in the fashion industry – Flash-based narratives set to music, with custom effects to match PW's direction and design work.

Providence, Rhode Island, Us

Provided a range of technical and design services, from identity design to archive management, to a sponsored studio course. This course aimed to work closely (as a "skunkworks") with a large multinational corporation to develop new design ideas. I am not at liberty to say more about this position, due to non-disclosure agreements.

Providence, Ri, Us

Worked with the principals to develop user-experience stories for several non-profit and education-oriented web apps; subsequently designed and implemented interfaces for these apps.

Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nl

In the wake of the ür-founder of the company Johnny DeKam's passing of the operational torch to Jack Turner and David Lublin, Vidvox sought to launch a fleet of 2nd-generation live-video performance apps. The concept for this new product line was a hybrid of DeKam's original VDMX, a video-mixer app, and the new collection of paradigmatic UIs yielded by Turner and Lublin's years of experimental live-video performance work.I developed a typographic identity for Vidvox and a matching style guide. Working closely with the principal developers, I integrated this identity's graphic design concepts to produce a novel yet intuitive interface for the new software line. The fruits of our convergent design effort was a distinctive idiomatic UI suite with a tightly enmeshed colorimetric and typographic identity – several days prior to the launch of which were devoted entirely to pixel-level minutiae. The Vidvox product offerings have remained true to the spirit of real-time video performance, cannily exploiting the many technological opportunities that have arisen in the ten years since; fittingly, my identity work has also remained the basis for the evolution of the face Vidvox apps continue to offer to their expert users today.

Troy, Ny, Us

Oversaw the design, construction, and deployment of several turnkey full-stack web apps to serve the Art Department and its vastly multivalent subordinate concerns – from the broad strokes of the branding to the UX stories and interface minutiae, down through the many layers of the HTML/CSS/PHP/MS-SQL stack (including an antediluvian array of sub-projects – e.g. a bespoke optimized ORM and a custom RADIUS/LDAP authentication module) to the provisioning of hardware. These apps delivered a range of well-integrated services, including:* Scheduling and CRM for the entire studio's production equipment stock* Student and faculty collaborative blogging and discussion courseware* Event PR workflow management – we were an early adopter of RSS syndication, which dovetailed with our ORM's internal RDFa serialization scheme* Early support for mobile and other non-PC platforms, via such venues as the iCal and vCard standards, as they emerged* Interactive single-page DOM-based UI elements (before the advent of jQuery!) to brighten up aspects of the site's experience for users at all levels* Hosting infrastructure for student work – experimental graduate web projects ran sandboxed and had access to a permissioned subset of the server-side data API... among other things.

Designed and developed database-centric MVC web applications, primarily in Java (using both servlet containers and JSP page templates) with plenty of bespoke SQL, and occasional exotic addenda to taste (e.g. cryptographic JNI components or Perl-based code generation templates) in collaboration with a dynamic pantheon of independent, like-minded polymath arch-nerds.

Mfa, Graphic Design

Dual Bfa, Psychopharmacology, Digital Media

N/A (Transferred To Nyu), Psychopharmacology

High School Diploma, High-School Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies