about.
I am an artist and engineer with almost a decade of experience working on systems involving PCB design, low-level firmware, webapps, and more. I use a wide range of tools, fabrication techniques, and mediums to create both creative art and technical products.
I am the founder of a small art studio called Second String Studios that creates a varied selection of designs involving non-standard media.
I have previously been employed as a Systems Engineer within a small team at WHITEvoid building large-scale kinetic lighting installations around the world. My day-to-day responsiblities varied from designing new circuit boards for upcoming product, running medium-scale production of multiple electrical designs simultaneously, writing bare-metal or RTOS-based firmware for our in-house products, or doing deep systems and functional test and debug across discipllines.
I continue to working on a contract basis with different clients. These clients vary from established companies and startups to small groups or founders.
A small example of projects I’ve worked on as an external consultant:
- a battery-powered device that minimized power consumption while also transmitting over either cellular or satellite networks
- a mains-powered appliance employing multiple motors, heating elements, pumps, and sensors all within a single enclosure
- a class II medical device
- reverse-engineering a 15+ year old medical device to add remote control for its multi-axis movement
I also spent three years as a software engineer at Plangrid (later acquired by Autodesk) working on the desktop Windows application written in C#.
Throughout my entire career I have continued to work on external ideas and projects that interest me. I’ve created several websites (lineup list is one with thousands of annual users). I’ve designed and built several iterations of technical hardware products (lighting-based designs like the Mini DMX Patcher and Ethernet DMX controller, or functional ones like the Spot Check device). I continue to explore art through different mediums and implementations - some examples include Low Res, Light Valves, and Silent Songs.