Experience

Coalesce

• United States
• Mental Health Care

• Director of Architecture

  • Jan 2006 - Present

  NYC Coalesce is a digital product shop based in Chinatown, NYC. Together with my partners, we have built a workshop that can deliver engaging, user-centric products at scale. We’ve discovered that a lot of businesses—from small-team startups to global brands—are in need of a digital partner that can translate business goals into actionable strategy and build smart products quickly. In the past 17 years, the Coalesce team has delivered more than 200 successful products spanning from bespoke learning… Show more Coalesce is a digital product shop based in Chinatown, NYC. Together with my partners, we have built a workshop that can deliver engaging, user-centric products at scale. We’ve discovered that a lot of businesses—from small-team startups to global brands—are in need of a digital partner that can translate business goals into actionable strategy and build smart products quickly. In the past 17 years, the Coalesce team has delivered more than 200 successful products spanning from bespoke learning management systems and CRMs to educational VR experiences. The Coalesce team operates on the principle that crafting powerful engagement means building beyond the device to empower the user. With backgrounds ranging from art to ergonomics, our approach is often unorthodox but our insight is always unique. Drop us a line and let us prove it. Specialties: Brand Articulation Product Strategy Market Research Content & Copy UI/UX Design Product Development Show less



Rancourt/Yatsuk

• Artist

  • Jan 2006 - Present

  NYC My collaborative art duo Rancourt/Yatsuk includes myself and Chuck Yatsuk, from Orlando, FL. We are currently based in South Florida and Jeju, South Korea. Together, we create highly structured projects that deal with American cultural phenomena and the human desire for commodity and leisure. Our work is a result of long-term research and is presented using digital imagery and is often channeled through a variety of characters and constructed environments. Our first solo… Show more My collaborative art duo Rancourt/Yatsuk includes myself and Chuck Yatsuk, from Orlando, FL. We are currently based in South Florida and Jeju, South Korea. Together, we create highly structured projects that deal with American cultural phenomena and the human desire for commodity and leisure. Our work is a result of long-term research and is presented using digital imagery and is often channeled through a variety of characters and constructed environments. Our first solo exhibition, a series of performances titled The Switch, was held at Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (2010), and was later performed as part of Nada Miami Beach (2010), and in Vienna as a part of Vienna Arts Week (2011). We subsequently presented our second Solo exhibition, Black Diamond, at Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (2011), which was performed as part of the Anyang Gwangju Cross International Performance Art Festival, in Anyang/Gwangju, South Korea, (2012). Our most recent project, titled Villagio, was presented at the Frieze Art Fair, London, UK (2015) and was later held as an exhibition at Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY. Our work has additionally been exhibited at The Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, DK; Center For Contemporary Art (CCA), Kitakyushu, JP; and Kunst Projects, Berlin, DE. We have received reviews in publications such as Artforum, Frieze, Artinfo, The New York Observer, Art Fag City, and Artreview. We have been awarded residencies at CCA Kitakyushu, Japan (2006); Art In General, New York, NY (2010); Seoksu Art Project, Anyang, South Korea (2008); Swing Space Selected Artists, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY (2008); and In You We Trust, Cushendall, IE (2007). We also published a catalogue of our work with Art In General in 2011. Show less



layerframe, Inc.

• Front-End Developer

  • 2008 - Jul 2010

  NYC Layerframe is a future tech lab of technologists that design digital experiences. As a front-end developer I worked directly with designers and backend engineers to produced a variety digital experiences. I converted designs into code, that often involved the integration of a variety of frameworks and e-commerce platforms such as Wordpress, Magento, and Prestashop.