Design, programming, sound, and music.
From scratch, built a full game, HAG, in Unreal Engine
Led game design, sound, and music for a Ludum Dare 53 game, Animal Ferry
Led design, programming, sound, and music for a Ludum Dare 54 game, O-Line
Released three new short albums in 4 months: mid-life, the shark, and November 12345
I co-founded and led product development at a fintech startup called Venture Club, aiming to streamline large financial transactions, like investment, by replacing expensive manual processes with cheap cryptographic ones.
Directed and designed product
Managed relationships with visual designers, lawyers, and prospective customers
Collaborated with co-founders on strategy, hiring, legal structure, pitches
I continued working to create new institutional infrastructure with Berlin-based Curve Labs, while writing, consulting, and engineering for a number of other projects (some unlaunched).
Cowrote the Kolektivo whitepaper, which earned a large regenerative economics grant
Early writer and community member of clr.fund
Governance consultant for ElementFi, one of the few projects at this time to release new governance primitives
Solo-built Squadz (link may break, sry!)
Groupmuse's thrust towards cooperative governance inspired me to go further, and web3 was providing funding and interested communities.
Learned lots of technical stuff about voting systems and worked as a technical writer
Transitioned to product manager of Alchemy, DAOstack's largest product
Met people from all over the world interested in creating more equitable institutional structures
Friends and I launched Groupmuse, a platform for crowdsourcing chamber music house shows. We did pretty well.
Reached 1000+ groupmuses per year all over the US, averaging $150+ pay per musician
Started and operated a business; took my first steps in software; also worked on community and internal management, HR, hiring, communications, and product design; converted to a cooperative
Worked as a gigging trumpet player, teacher, and composer/arranger in the Boston area.
Graduated from New England Conservatory with Bachelor's degrees in jazz and music history, and a Masters in composition (merit scholarships & alumni award, if you care)
Trumpet player for bands like Tredici Bacci and Cocek Brass Band; theatres like Boston University School of Theatre and Lyric Stage Company of Boston working often with Matt Stern; GB bands along the north and south shores of Massachusetts
Music teacher at New England Conservatory Prep School, Camp Encore/Coda, Conservatory Lab Charter School