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Developing the ultimate tool for designing the seamless integration of digital and physical experiences: Tactile.space is a new hardware platform that makes prototyping new consumer hardware faster and easier, utilizing spatial computing to add interactive tactile experiences of product prototypes, bringing interaction to form.The platform enables UX and industrial designers work together across not just touchscreens, but also physical controls, electronic sensors & actuators, textiles, touch and haptic technologies.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I engineer, prototype, and develop products in the IoT physical computing space – wearables, consumer products, automotive, health and fitness, and connected home. In my current projects, I develop embedded hardware, firmware, and connectivity, and work directly with industrial designers and mechanical engineers, UX, brand, and strategy. (Embedded Computing, Arduino, ARM, C++, Wireless Sensor Nodes, Haptic Touch, Epilog Laser, CNC, Model Making, Sewing.)

Contracting on short-term projects, building out IoT architectures around wearable devices, home automation, mobile apps, and retail experiences. (Zigbee, BLE Beacons/iBeacon, iOS, Android Wear, C++, Node.js, Arduino)Developed and shipped responsive web applications for retail, pharmaceutical, telecom, and marketing automation projects. (PHP, Zend framework, Backbone.js, Foundation, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3)Co-created the initial release of Adobe PhoneGap, an open-source iOS framework, in a three-day sprint at the 2008 iPhoneDevCamp hackathon. (Objective-C, iOS SDK, Cocoa, UIKit, UIWebView, JavaScript)Architected, designed, developed, and shipped CoffeeTable for iPad and iPhone – two photosharing iOS apps. (Bluetooth, heavily augmented GameKit, multitouch, Core Animation, custom packet protocol)Developing a connected wearables platform. (AVR/ARM, BLE/BTLE/BT4, sensors)

Led front-end engineering for ulive.com, a startup within Scripps Interactive, driving content across digital platforms. Evolved rich experiences around curated media from Food Network, Travel Channel, HGTV, DIY Network, and ulive original video productions.

San Francisco, California, Us

Architected the UX, built and led an international tech team on the ground in Australia, charged with delivering a new ecommerce site for Telstra, a tier-1 national telecom, resulting in an immediate and persistent lift in online revenues. • HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS3, Jasmine unit testing, Backbone.js MVC framework, JSON APIs, Java/JEESpecified technologies for Fortune 100 innovation projects across industries and sectors including healthcare / medical, finance, industrial, and consumer. Built tech models and reference implementations in iOS (Objective-C, Cocoa, PhoneGap, jQuery Mobile), web (Node.js, MongoDB, HTML5), and embedded platforms targeting industrial, consumer appliance, and wearables applications • Arduino, C++, WSN, I2C, SPI, CoAP, HTTP

Led UX engineering of Lady Gaga's milestone "Born This Way" music event (>250K Facebook RSVPs), yielding record-breaking sales of a digital single, in a simultaneous global release geo-targeting a dozen international retail partners, for Interscope and Universal Music Group. • HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, Facebook APIs, WordPress, CDN

Led development of the new PhotoPicker UX, incorporating Ajax, Java/J2EE/JSP, Adobe Flex/Flash, and multiple analytics services. Co-developed an in-house MVC JavaScript framework. Created iOS prototypes in Ruby on Rails and HTML. Championed iOS development and released Kodak's first iPhone app in 2008.

Austin, Texas, Us

Extended core platforms, adding new features including blogging, tagging, branded CSS themes, and styled RSS feeds. Coded across the full stack. • Java, JEE (J2EE), MySQL, XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript.

Cupertino, California, Us