I have 10 years experience as a software developer and am now working on a bachelor's degree in software engineering. I've worked independently, for small businesses, and for the last 6 years at a large company. I've acted as solution architect and full-stack developer, but my passions are for embedded systems and machine learning.

I love to build things in and out of the computer. Networked sensors and tools, coffee tables with screens in them, and good old-fashioned woodworking fill my free time, and my passion projects at work include building a CNC router to cut circuit boards and a servo-controlled camera for photogrammetric 3D scans. I believe 3D printing is one of the very first steps to a new era of manufacturing and that the future includes nanoconstruction.

Highlights

• Designed and developed web application to coordinate media buying, teaching a team of volunteers software development along the way. Eliminated annual 3-week period of 18 hour days and centralized all planning data, replacing a shared drive full of Excel documents.
• Prototyped hardware and software solutions for novel media problems in-home, in-theater, and in-restaurant.
• Hosted a workshop at Chicago Ideas Week 2018 on building simple things as a way to change focus, calm the mind, and solve problems differently.
• Built innovation lab to solve technical challenges, provide hands-on experience with emerging tech, and introduce employees to programming, 3D printing, electronics, and other building block skills.