joined as 9th engineer

achieved a 70% size reduction for deployment requirements, reducing company storage costs & improving user browser app/CLI tool performance metrics

enhanced job sentinel performance by 30x, bolstering deployment reliability

ported multiple features to new APIs/services, improving UX at scale

Collaboration & pair-programming with team leads, senior developers, fellow contributors with user & community feedback

Spoke is a text platform delivering high quality, backwards compatible software to aid organizational partners’ campaigns

Gathered needs and functional requirements from clients & presented those findings to a production team

Developed technical specifications and audio schema based on artist input, user needs, & venue resources

Crafted user experience for both artists and audience

Maintained & troubleshot technical systems - worked with schematics & documentation, tracked issues & communicated these to managers & clients

Established streamlined workflow processes across an engineering team (building & iterating on template files, calibrating PA systems, organizing shared equipment) & with artists (operational milestones, audio schema)

Responsible for facilitating live music performances with a high production value and in a timely manner on a tight production schedule

Long-standing contract work and/or staff positions (further itemized below in Experience section):

venues incl. Caribou Room (’17-present), Lazy Dog Live Music (’15-’19), Pop-Up (’17-18), Boulder Theater (’15-’19), Fox Theater (’15-19)

annual festivals incl. Upslope Get Down (3x), Frozen Dead Guy Days (3x), Hanuman (2x)

companies incl. Sweetwave Audio, Z2 Entertainment, Front Range Backline

private clients & bands

My roles sometimes expanded to Stage Manager, Artist Liaison, Lighting Designer, Backline Tech, Stagehand