Engineer/UX Researcher, JoyLabz

www.joylabz.com/

Developing and prototyping tools for digital play, tangible computing and computational creativity.

• Prototyping playful tangible UX concepts
• Designing and developing low-floor creative-coding tools
• Exploring and developing sample-project space for creative tools in the form of software, building guides, tutorials, etc
• Small-team scoping and project management

Open Hardware Fellow, Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science

www.publiclab.org/

Documentation and development of DIY water quality monitoring instrumentation with a focus on oil and gas industry related contamination.

• Development of open-hardware water quality monitoring tools with a focus on affordability and ease of use..
• Collaboration with community development and monitoring methods fellows to create activities to engage communities in data-collection and interpretation.
• Documentation of the relationships between common water-quality measures and oil and gas pollution

Maker Specialist, Providence Children's Museum

www.childrenmuseum.org/

Documentation and development of hands-on building projects for kids ages 5-11 in a museum makerspace setting.

• Develop hands-on, building projects to work in the context of a children's museum makerspace.
• Run prototype workshops in collaboration with museum staff.
• Produce project documentation and ran trainings for museum staff.

Founder/Co-Director, Parts and Crafts

www.partsandcrafts.org

Founded and directed a youth and community makerspace and alternative education center serving 1100 children annually in a variety of programs in and out of school.

• Designed and facillitated student-directed creative learning spaces in the form of school-vacation camps, afterschool and evening open-shop programs, in-school workshops and partnerships, and a five day/week school-alternative program.
• Taught classes and and workshops and developed cross-disciplinary curriculum on art, technology, design, and other topics to students age 7 to adult.
• Developed and managed a $500,000 annual organizational budget through a mixture of grant-writing, fundraising, project-kit sales and program revenue.
• Co-designed organizational policies, practices and procedures with a team of 5 other full-time program staff.
• Co-managed a community wood-shop and digital fabrication lab and developed practices and procedures governing youth and community tool use.
• Designed hands-on, project-based tinkering and building professional development workshops for educators.
• Participated in and bottom-lined every aspect of running and managing a small non-profit, from accounting to IT to licensing to community management to building maintenance.

Software Developer, MOS Architects

mos-office.net

Developer for in-house software projects

• Designed and developed small software design tools built around computational geometry, complexity, and models of physical processes.
• Developed a combination public-face/private collaboration tool/website to facillitate information sharing between collaborators and the public.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

non-degree