I was born and raised in New York State. My parents are both artists. Our first family computer was a Tandy Sensation. I got a book on computer animation and was hooked. That was the path that led me to combining programming and art.
I left high school early to attend Bard College — a liberal arts school in upstate New York — with a focus on Computer Graphics in the Studio Arts department. After college I headed west, applying my coding skills to web and mobile development. I was a product designer at Electronic Arts, and in 2010 I created Polychord for iPad. I ended up at a small startup in Palo Alto called Timeful, working with some truly amazing people. In 2015 we were acquired by Google, where I spent eight years as a creative engineer.
After Google, I returned to indie development at Apposite — the small studio I founded with Colleen — where we're building Vibescape for Apple Vision Pro, Polychord for iPad, and other fun, creative apps. On YouTube I make videos about spatial computing, tech history, and immersive worlds.
In 2017, we began restoring a historic farm in the Pacific Northwest. We're raising our kids here, bringing back upland prairie and oak woodland on the property — two habitats that are rapidly disappearing. If that's the sort of thing that interests you, follow along on Instagram.