Experience

Urbit Foundation

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Nov 2022 - Present



Tlon

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Jan 2022 - Oct 2022

  I lead a team of engineers working on the Arvo kernel, with occasional forays into the runtime and userspace.

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2017 - Dec 2021

  Urbit core dev, working mostly on the Arvo kernel. Implemented a network protocol, linker and build system, kernel hot reload system, and timer module.



3Scan

• Software Engineer

  • Dec 2013 - Aug 2017

• Software Consultant

  • Jun 2013 - Dec 2013



Tempo Automation

• software consultant

  • 2013 - 2013



Zigfu

• San Francisco Bay Area

• Co-founder

  • May 2011 - Mar 2012

  I've performed many roles at Zigfu, including talking to investors and customers, website design, system administration (I set up several of our initial servers), 3D rotation math, writing patents, and miscellaneous pieces of code mostly in C#, Python, and JavaScript. These days I'm focusing more on biz-dev and sales. I've performed many roles at Zigfu, including talking to investors and customers, website design, system administration (I set up several of our initial servers), 3D rotation math, writing patents, and miscellaneous pieces of code mostly in C#, Python, and JavaScript. These days I'm focusing more on biz-dev and sales.



Course Zero Automation

• Co-founder

  • Mar 2008 - Dec 2011

  Co-founded company with Josh Siegel to develop and manufacture a cheaper inertial navigation system. I derived an analytic solution to a multiplicative extended Kalman filter for fusing input from multiple sensors. Next time I'll make a computer solve it numerically; solving it analytically took forever! The device won the Boeing Prize at the MIT-West Point Soldier Design Competition in April 2008. Co-founded company with Josh Siegel to develop and manufacture a cheaper inertial navigation system. I derived an analytic solution to a multiplicative extended Kalman filter for fusing input from multiple sensors. Next time I'll make a computer solve it numerically; solving it analytically took forever! The device won the Boeing Prize at the MIT-West Point Soldier Design Competition in April 2008.



Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• President

  • Jun 2008 - Aug 2010

  The E-Club was formed in 1988 to serve MIT and Harvard students, faculty, staff, alumni and select professionals. Members represent a range of experience and backgrounds including business, engineering, arts and sciences. Many MIT and Harvard startups have recruited club members as $50K team members, co-founding partners, and equity-sharing employees. At the E-Club you'll find your aspiration for technology entrepreneurship shared by many of your peers. We are eager to hear about your project and hope to advise, contribute and sometimes invest in what you're trying to do. Primary Activities: Holding weekly club meetings and undergraduate seminars. Organizing periodic IAP, Summer social/networking events. Connecting through a low-volume (1-3 per week) email list. Maintaining connection to MIT Technology Licensing Office. Show less



Course Zero Consulting

• Independent Consultant to RallyPoint, Inc.

  • Oct 2009 - Jun 2010

  Built attitude and heading reference system software using an Extended Kalman filter to be used for gesture recognition. Designed and implemented algorithms involving quaternions and Euler angles. Built attitude and heading reference system software using an Extended Kalman filter to be used for gesture recognition. Designed and implemented algorithms involving quaternions and Euler angles.



MIT Media Lab

• United States
• Research Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher at the Opera of the Future

  • Oct 2009 - Mar 2010

  I worked on the motor controllers and navigation system for a group of seven-foot-tall autonomous robots, to be used in the opera "Death in the Powers," which premiered in Monte Carlo in fall 2010. I worked on the motor controllers and navigation system for a group of seven-foot-tall autonomous robots, to be used in the opera "Death in the Powers," which premiered in Monte Carlo in fall 2010.



Centric

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Intern

  • Jul 2007 - Aug 2007

  Helped develop Enterprise 2.0 features for Centric Team Elements, a team collaboration tool for businesses that integrates with Centric CRM. Helped develop Enterprise 2.0 features for Centric Team Elements, a team collaboration tool for businesses that integrates with Centric CRM.



SharpEdge Studios, LLC

• Server Utilities Programmer

  • Oct 2006 - Dec 2006

  Wrote a utility in C++ to transfer game data automatically from designers on the West Coast to the server's database near MIT. Wrote a utility in C++ to transfer game data automatically from designers on the West Coast to the server's database near MIT.



Old Dominion University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2005 - Aug 2005

  Developed formulae for a relativistic frame transformation of the triple differential cross section from a previous (e, 2e) nuclear physics experiment. Wrote computer programs in C++ and Fortran that used those formulae to determine that a proposed experiment would not yield useful results. Presented results to the Chair of the ODU Physics Department, Colm T. Whelan, PhD., ScD. Developed formulae for a relativistic frame transformation of the triple differential cross section from a previous (e, 2e) nuclear physics experiment. Wrote computer programs in C++ and Fortran that used those formulae to determine that a proposed experiment would not yield useful results. Presented results to the Chair of the ODU Physics Department, Colm T. Whelan, PhD., ScD.