I design, build, and support online learning environments that help people access new opportunities and create new futures. I've now 20+ years into this journey, with past work ranging from PhD research to venture-backed startups, and have helped to launch and lead two new colleges along the way. I am co-founder and CTO at Sparkwise (sparkwise.co), where I lead our product and engineering work to help develop world-class teams and leaders through multiplayer challenges. Prior to Sparkwise, I served as the founding CTO at Calbright College, the first fully-online competency-based college in the California Community Colleges system. Before that, I was Chief Learning Scientist at Minerva Project. I joined Minerva as Employee #1, and spent 7 years designing and engineering new tools to support learning and teaching for this groundbreaking new university. I have been lucky to have had the opportunity to be a part of some stellar learning communities myself, and I try to imbue the best of these experiences into the environments that I design and create.