Jun 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr

• Building next-generation VR hardware and software.
• Driving operations, finance, and marketing as we scale Bigscreen Beyond, the world's smallest VR headset. Launched in 2023, Beyond is 4-6X lighter, 2X higher resolution, and supports the most popular SteamVR games including Beat Saber, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and VRChat.
• We're also the developers of Bigscreen, a VR app that lets you watch movies, play games, and hangout with friends in a virtual living room. Bigscreen has millions of users and is available on the Meta Quest and Valve Index headsets.
• Bigscreen is funded by leading Silicon Valley investors True Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

Sep 2019 – Jun 2024 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• - Assembled a team from backgrounds in tech and games at places like Google Material Design and ArenaNet to build an iOS app letting users create, play, and remix games from an algorithmic feed on their phone.

Apr 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Worked with companies in the insurance, power transmission, and law enforcement industries to conceive, demonstrate, and ultimately deploy commercial solutions built around Skydio's fully autonomous drones.
• Spearheaded the successful pursuit of the Short-Range Reconnaissance program of record to deploy Skydio's drones with the US Army for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance and led the pursuit and fulfilment of our SBIR contracts with the US Air Force.
• Worked with engineers at Skydio to build necessary APIs and tooling for third-party developers to successfully prototype and ship applications built to operate Skydio drones for high-value workflow automation.

Aug 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Launched Skydio R1, the world's first self-flying camera.

Jul 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Menlo Park

• Worked with Chris Dixon (early investor in Oculus, Coinbase) to invest in startups building "emerging computing platforms" in virtual/augmented reality, drones, robotics, and machine learning.

May 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Interviewed startup founders, venture capitalists, and technical subject matter experts to write news and analysis about virtual reality, app development, backend infrastructure, drones, and other emerging technologies.

May 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Primarily covered Apple and enterprise software for the technology section.
• Contributed features to the entertainment, politics, and advertising sections.

Feb 2013 – Jun 2013 · 4 mos · Berkeley

• Created a new website for “California Modernization and Economic Development Act” campaign on NationBuilder’s CMS after prototyping on Wordpress. Managed social media presences and mailing lists for subscribers and volunteers for the CMED Act campaign.

Jun 2012 – Aug 2012 · 2 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Designed user experience for Caruso’s Grove iOS app. Worked in a team with fellow interns to predict shopping trends over the next 5-10 years and suggest new tenants for Caruso properties in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas areas.

Sep 2011 – Jan 2012 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Created daily posts featuring the latest trailers and news sourced from searching around the web, Twitter, and emails from PR representatives for game publishers. Coordinated with other writers and our editors to ensure posting took place continuously each day. Wrote game reviews and previews based on early copies sent by publishers. Wrote feature stories based on game industry events in San Francisco.

Aug 2010 – May 2011 · 9 mos · Palm Coast, Florida

• Developed a website that aggregated headlines from the RSS feeds of news outlets and presented them as streams organized by topic. Built with Python, HTML, CSS, and Javascript on Google App Engine. Received the 2011 Young Entrepreneur Award from the NFIB for my work on JTHeadlines.

Jun 2009 – Aug 2013 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Managed a team of five other writers, blogging about technology, politics, media, and more. Responsible for keeping everyone on schedule and writing about topics our audience found appealing.