Experience

Music for Film, Games & Multimedia

• United States
• Entertainment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Composer, Founder

  • 2010 - Present

  Award-winning composer and songwriter for visual and interactive media seeking additional experience and collaborations in the industry. Over 25 years experience as a multi-instrumental performer, arranger, and producer in a broad range of styles. Deep background in communications.I help media creators tell compelling stories that move, thrill, and inspire. My work combines orchestral arrangements, electronic beats and textures, ambient soundscapes, the harmonic language of jazz, and live performance.Music production with variety of acoustic, analog, and digital gear and industry-standard software (Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Kontakt, Finale, etc.). For interactive projects, I've designed and built custom audio middleware to allow composing responsive musical scores in games and multimedia.I play piano, synths, acoustic & electric guitar, electric & fretless bass, drums, mallets, percussion, euphonium, trumpet.



Berklee College of Music

• United States
• Musicians
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Technology Strategist

  • Jun 2002 - Jan 2015

  Full-spectrum technology solutions for the world’s premiere online music school: strategy, planning, architecture, project oversight, execution, and hands-on implementation.Highlights:• Oversaw the system design, human workflow, and back-end processing of $15M+ annual tuition payments for Berklee Online• Saved >$100K in vendor contracts and hardware negotiations• Created Berklee’s collaborative authoring platform and deployment system for online course content, which was presented as a case study in best practices for enterprise content management at the 2012 DevLearn conference.Led custom software development across all areas of the student/instructor experience, content team, and back-office administration. Worked with top-level staff on UX/UI, requirements gathering, user testing, and system design. Delivered ground-breaking real-time and asynchronous teaching modalities and innovative user interactions, contributing to the school's winning “Best Online Course” awards for eight consecutive years.Managed in-house tech teams, contractors, and remote workers. Collaborated closely with external vendors and non-technical staff while serving as project manager and/or advisor on numerous multi-year initiatives of highest strategic value to the institution. Performed as technical lead on major integration projects with Berklee's main campus. Launched iOS apps. Defined testing, auditing, and code release processes. Oversaw compliance with accessibility standards. Developed storage and backup infrastructure for mass-scale, business-critical video content.Primary technologies used: Ruby on Rails, PHP, PostgreSQL, HTML, Javascript, CSS, TCL, OpenACS, C, XML, XSLT, AWS, Bash Integrations: Authorize.net, Salesforce, WebEx, Colleague, Bank of America, Moodle, Informatica, Noteflight, Widen



Digitas

• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Sep 1997 - Mar 2002

  Performed web software development (front-end, back-end, database work, and architecture) and led small tech teams at an interactive advertising agency for Fortune 500 and other clients including the NBA, L.L.Bean, AT&T, IBM, AmEx, DietCoke, FedEx, Harcourt, Aetna, and others. Mentored junior developers and conducted tech learning sessions.Primary technologies used: Java, Perl, SQL, HTML, Javascript, CSS, XML, XSLT, Bash, Tomcat, Apache



Studio for Music, Design & Computers

• Owner

  • Feb 1995 - Sep 1997

  Provided music, publishing, communications, and technology services for the arts and entertainment community in Western Massachusetts.