01 · Salvage
Work from what already exists.
A site, archive, behavior, or half-working tool is never empty. I begin by making its existing conditions usable.
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Stay A While
I live where many different things fuse into one deliverable.
My background begins in physical space and extends through fabrication, cultural experiments, product management, experiential systems, AI workflows, and agentic orchestration.
People read these as unrelated. They are one method across mediums meeting various environments.
The method that builds an AI character is the method that draws the light housings for a historic bridge, cuts a music video, and delivers a generative system inside a Manhattan tower. I don't see a difference.
02 · Figure
Reason through the artifact.
The drawing, model, deck, or diagram is where the problem gets worked out, not where the finished idea is announced.
03 · Broker
Build a shared language.
I construct the terms and intermediary artifacts that let separate disciplines understand one another and act together.
04 · Temper
Design beyond the handoff.
The work meets unanticipated conditions and untrained hands. What survives becomes more useful while its decisions remain legible.
Disciplines kept in productive collision.
- 01Experiential & media architecture
- 02AI systems & agent workflows
- 03Fabrication, permitting & delivery
- 04Real-time spatial systems
- 05Product strategy & operating models
- 06Research, prototyping & participatory design
What that looks like in practice.
Cairn
Company Brain architect · sole builder
A local-first OS and agent-orchestration engine that turns two decades of unstructured work into a memory layer capable of taking a brief and producing the materials to answer it, informed by what the archive itself suggests.
Tricky
AI product builder · experience designer
Release Intelligence, Gleanings, RFP Automation, Civic Investment Mapping, String, and AIntivirus; independent AI products and agentic infrastructure used by operating teams, 5,000+ traders, and 10,000+ chatbot users across ventures.
Downstream
Experiential strategy · project management · media systems
Vanderbilt Passage, a confidential physical-AI client, Warner Music, Red Hat, Toronto Raptors, and other confidential enterprise programs; $6.9M in scoped budgets with $1.48M in documented savings.
BrineSpace
Strategy · architecture · fabrication
Hospitality interiors, cultural programming, fabrication, and materials research. Full-permit bar buildouts (Caleta & Bad Habit), adaptive reuse at 88 East Broadway, three cultural pop-ups, community fridge shed design, precision jewelry, school repairs for a Haitian art institution, and a third-place Nestlé BioDesign proposal for Booch Lab.
WeWork
Spatial experience design · portfolio strategy
Conversion logic across 900+ locations, initiating 200+ projects through a playbook distributed teams could run.
XD Lab
NSF-funded HRI research
Gymnast CoBot, developed under NSF Award #1928654.
Landing Studio
Research · design · fabrication
Charlesgate Park, Richardson Plaza, Ouellette Bridge, Covid Food Distribution Hubs, and Marginal Street Community–Industry Seam Improvements.
Signify
Experiential design research
Gesture-controlled task lighting, bio-responsive systems, and waterfront experience planning across light, place, and interaction.