About

I draw on a broad base of skill, experience and creativity to create compelling, human-centered software. I excel at helping stakeholders understand, articulate, and realize their goals. I’m on the lookout for growth-oriented opportunities where I can bring my creative, technical, and communication skills to bear.

Personal Qualities

Personal Interests

Professional Experience

CTO

Deep Space Robots

2024 - Present

Develop and guide the technology strategy for Deep Space Robots.

Director of Development

Deep Space Robots

2022 - 2024

Direct a talented, diverse team creating beautiful, performant experiences for the web with tools that are familiar to clients and agencies. Actively mentor developers, fostering growth though both hands-on training, and self-directed exploration.

Web Developer

Deep Space Robots

2019 - 2022

Create beautiful, performant experiences for the web with tools that are familiar to clients and agencies.

Recommended and implemented development processes that improved collaboration and code consistency, saving >40 hours per project.

Developed and implemented componentized development model with modern build automations to make Wordpress development less awful.

Design Director

Countryside Bible Church

2010 - 2019

Clarified public-facing content for 60 separate ministries of a 2000-member church by designing and sustaining a unified promotion strategy.

Raised awareness of ministries and events through creation of visual identities including logos, motion graphics, brochures, etc.

Boosted audience engagement by producing and cross-promoting scripted and candid video content.

Increased weekly web traffic 600% through design, development, and optimization of a new primary website.

Unified serial content distribution by writing/documenting an API accessible to web, app, social, and IoT platforms.

Achieved the WCAG 2.0 AA standard for accessibility through a ground-up UI redesign and redevelopment.

Researched, identified, configured, and implemented a new website CMS, providing stakeholders unprecedented access and control over their content.

Skills

Tooling

Education

Bachelor of Science - Architecture

University of Texas at Arlington

2008 - 2013

Rigorous design education including study in material sciences, sociology, psychology, history, art, and religion. Special emphasis on justification of design decisions via peer, and professional review.

Volunteer and Community

Awana Commander

Redeeming Grace Church

2022 - Present

Serve as Awana Commander, directing clubs for kids age 3-12. Manage and direct 20-25 volunteers, coordinate with church leadership. Train youth and adults for leadership roles in the club.

Audio Engineer

Countryside Bible Church

2008 – 2021

Front-of-house and control room sound engineering of weekly live events for a 1,200-seat auditorium. Produced orchestral, choral, vocal ensemble, instrumental ensemble, and pop/rock. Experience with stage-setup, mic placement, mixing, digital multitrack recording, and DAW control.

Helped design and implement redundant, 64-channel recording and playback for live venue, and control room.

Awana Club Director

Countryside Bible Church

2002 - 2021

Served as club director for an Awana Sparks club (children ages 5-7 years). Managed and directed 25-35 volunteers, coordinated with church leadership, saw the weekly club attendance grow from 45 children attending weekly in 2008 to 90 children in 2013. Served as grade director, game director, and have trained 2 club directors.