Senior Product Designer / Product Manager for a market-leading professional audio company. Providing product design, product concepts and roadmap priorities for innovative, best in class plug-in audio tools for modern music production. Working cross-functionally with software engineering, program management, quality assurance, GUI design and marketing in the development and launch of software products. Work with business development and legal in support of product development and brand licensing.

Key Accomplishments:

• Sound City Studios-October 2023

Product concept, design and launch. Universal Audio’s TEC Award-winning studio emulator became the company’s best-selling software title of all time.

• Unison Integrated Preamps-January 2014 to current

Manage groundbreaking projects in mic preamp technology blending analog and digital disciplines, blurring the lines between analog and emulation. Establishing a new plug-in market for UA's Apollo interface business--UA 610 Preamp and EQ, API Vision Channel Strip, Neve 1073 Preamp and EQ, Neve 88RS Channel Strip, Manley VOXBOX and more.

• Moog Multimode Filte XL-Feb. 2017

Facilitated IP/brand licensing for, and conceived award-winning digital filter set combining an amalgam of sounds and features from the original Minimoog, Sonic Six and Voyager synthesizers.

• Ocean Way Studios

Worked in collaboration with Ocean Way recording founder and producer Allen Sides to create a one of a kind dynamic studio room emulation with real proximity effect and 3D dispersion pattern modeling; Two rooms and $500,000 worth of vintage microphones.

• Studer A800-December 2010

Created a new product category in plug-in market with tape machine emulation; delivered record-breaking revenue for a single product onUAD platform. Market research and product requirements, internal and external sonic and technical evaluation, facilitated bringing on foremost magnetic tape expert Jay McKnight (AES) in an advisorial role.

Served as key marketing communications contributor, Editor for monthly webzine and quarterly newsletter. Functioned as liaison to third party writers and magazine reviewers to ensure accurate marketing and technical representation of company products; Provided customer product support and pre-sales support. Provided sonic and functional quality assurance for new software and hardware products managing critical listening evaluation for prototype and final product verification for both software and hardware. Created owner's manuals for hardware products; served as trade show coordinator and support.

Key Accomplishments:

• EMT 140- November 2004

Provided key program data from a four-month algorithm voicing project in which I tuned UA's best-selling plate reverb emulations by ear, and provided GUI/controls development

• Roland RE-201 Space Echo- March 2006

Lead an extended voicing and QA project ensuring product was highly representative of original hardware counterpart, and provided GUI/controls development

• Webzine- With over 25,000 subscribing readers in 2005, regularly ranked #1 most popular contributor with monthly “Analog Obsession” column

Provide passionately creative audio production and technical expertise for a diverse range of clients specializing in independent artists and labels. Extensive experience with digital audio workstations and other modern production tools as well as classic hardware/analog audio tools.