Summary
I am a programmer and designer whose focus is to create delightful and efficient interfaces for relevant contextual information and media.
I work at the Museum of Modern Art, where my recent projects have taken the form of mobile apps, digital signage, kiosk interfaces and websites.
I teach a sound art studio at MoMA and Communications Lab at ITP / NYU.
After work I like to build audio games, screen and installation based sound maps and musical interfaces.
Specialties
designing and developing for multiple hardware platforms, iPhone web apps, creating hardware and software interfaces, interactive media, interactive audio, rapid prototyping, assistive technology for the visually impaired, spatialized audio, web mapping
Experience
Media Technology Developer
Museum of Modern Art
Nonprofit; 501-1000 employees; Museums and Institutions industry
July 2007 – Present (4 years 8 months) New York, NY
• lead developer for MoMA mobile (iOS, Android, mobile web)
• created hidden sound bugs for Talk To Me exhibition
• created application for displaying tweets for Talk To Me exhibition
• developed prototype for lobby screen system in Quartz Composer
• front end development of redesigned MoMA.org in Ruby on Rails
• developed data-driven subsites (calendar, members calendar, publications)
• developing and maintaining CMS for calendar, image and multimedia assets
• developed audio tour iPhone web app
• developed Python app for Nokia mobile phones for museum visitors to take and upload pictures to MoMA website
Adjunct Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program
New York University
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
September 2008 – December 2008 (4 months)
Taught Communications Lab, an introductory course that provides students with hands-on experience using various technologies (online communities, digital imaging, audio, video, animation, authoring environments and the World Wide Web).
Instructor
MoMA
Nonprofit; 501-1000 employees; Museums and Institutions industry
June 2008 – July 2008 (2 months)
Taught course exploring techniques for creating sound art using field recordings.
Topics covered:
• field recording equipment
• audio recording
• physics of sound
• basic mic techniques
• multitrack waveform editing with open source software
Special Projects Technologist
Audio Video & Controls
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry
November 2006 – July 2007 (9 months)
• Developed small screen Flash application for displaying iPod metadata and weather information in Crestron system
• Built interactive exhibit for the Mythic Creatures exhibition at American Museum of Natural History using Jitter to crossfade between live camera input and an animation
• Flash/PHP based applications for real estate sales offices and restaurant (Starck/Grammercy, Corcoran, Wild Salmon/Jeffrey Chodorow)
• Music-making exhibition for Connecticut Science Center (design)
• Programmed web accessible control interfaces (WACI) for New York Historical Society exhibition
Freelance Web Developer
Self Employed (Self-employed)
June 1998 – July 2007 (9 years 2 months)
• European Media (11/2006) - designed and developed multilanguage CMS-based website for international media group.
• Listening In (07/2006)- created Wordpress based podcasting blog for public radio contributor Gideon D'Arcangelo.
• Anthology Film Archives (1998-2000) - webmaster for cinema in the Lower East Side.
Licensing Business Analyst
ASCAP
Nonprofit; 201-500 employees; Music industry
July 2000 – July 2005 (5 years 1 month)
Licensing Business Analyst
Provided strategic and operational support to Vice President of Licensing VP of Broadcasting and headed team developing radio station programming reporting
software in Visual Basic.
Team Leader, International Distribution
ASCAP
Nonprofit; 201-500 employees; Music industry
April 1996 – July 2000 (4 years 4 months)
Responsible for correct and timely distribution of royalty revenue from all international affiliated societies. Led a team of 5 translators analyzing international performance data and reconciling with incoming revenue.
Languages
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English
(Native or bilingual proficiency) -
German
(Professional working proficiency) -
Chinese
(Elementary proficiency)
Education
New York University
MPS, Interactive Telecommunications
2004 – 2006
New School University
Certificate, Audio Engineering
2001 – 2002
Universität Heidelberg
B.A., Germanistik
1993 – 1994
Participated in pilot Exchange Program with Boston University
Boston University
BA, German Language and Literature
1992 – 1994
Additional Information
- Websites:
- Interests:
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building musical interfaces, arduino, asterisk, processing, ruby on rails, open source, max/msp/jitter, networking, radio, field recordings, wireless technology
- Honors and Awards:
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• Gave talk "Two Birds, One Stone: Creating an iPhone App and Mobile Site Simultaneously" at 2010 Museum Computer Network Conference, Austin TX
• Organizing Committee, 2007 New Interfaces for Musical Expression in New York City
• Sonic Body Pong at Come Out and Play Festival, NYC, September 2006
• Presented spinCycle at NIME at IRCAM in Paris, France, June 2006
• Most Useful and Relevant Design for (Geo)Phone Tag, Yahoo! Design Expo, August 2006
• Presented “Auditory Interfaces for Small Screen Mobile Devices” at O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference March 2006
• Spoke about podcasting for Podcasting 101 panel at NYC Grassroots Media Coalition, February 2006
• Presented (Geo)Phone Tag at O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference, January 2006
• Installed spinCycle at Sony Wonder Technology Lab, November 2005
• Best Concept award for Fermata at Microsoft Design Expo, July 2005
• Presented Sonictroller at NIME Conference, May 2005
• Performed spinCycle at Tonic for NIME concert, May 2005
