Curious by default.
Built to figure it out.

Creative tech, audio engineering, and the factory floor. Three backgrounds most people don't combine. I built a career on the seams.

I studied Creative Technology at Illinois State, a program built for hybrids who don't fit cleanly into "designer," "engineer," or "artist" because the interesting work lives between those categories. Since 2021 I've spent every year deepening that range.

Before any of the technical work, there was sound. Years engineering, producing, and mixing. Vocal sessions, livestream boards, late-night studio sessions. Releases shipped, repeat clients, work I still stand behind. Audio taught me the patience to hear the problem nobody else is hearing, the taste to know when something is actually finished, and the humility to stay with it until it's right. Those instincts carry into every technical problem I touch.

Two years at Rivian taught me what production looks like from the inside. What breaks. What drags. Where good people end up doing work a computer should be doing. When I rotated onto the Autonomy team, I didn't just complete my queue. I spotted a repetitive sub-task nobody was fixing, built a tool for it on personal time, and shipped 3 to 7× throughput gains without dropping accuracy.

Creative ear. Engineering instinct. Real operational experience. That's what I bring. I teach myself whatever the problem demands, ship something, iterate until it's right. I've done it in studios, on the line, and on my own time.