I lead, learn, and convert pies in the sky into birds in the hand.
I run a boutique tech team which turns napkin sketches into working products. Our projects often include the web, public art, and the occasional airport.
Captricity is a funded startup making a web service which converts paper forms into structured digital data. NGOs, academics, and other field teams currently manage their own data entry contractors, but Captricity will combine new forms of computer vision technology with crowdsourced people to reduce the price, decrease the delivery time, and raise the data quality. My team is creating the technical infrastructure.
As CEO I bootstrapped a web startup which built browser based 3D social spaces.
In my main project at PARC I took a description for a theoretical approach to heterogenous device interconnection and built a web scale toolkit which was subsequently licensed to Samsung Electronics.
I "fixed" quirk mode bugs on the rendering pipeline and implemented a new download manager for the BeOS's original web browser, NetPositive.
I worked with Gorbet Design to develop the open infrastructure underpinning the rotating installation art in the new terminals at the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport.
I led the development of a new form of online news engine for a team of forward looking journalists. Technologies I used include Django, the LAMP stack, and third party APIs like Facebook and Twitter.