Work Experience:

Duration: 11 Years (From Intern to Principal Software Engineer).
Progressed from intern to principal software engineer at Avid Technology through relentless creative innovation of their flagship software product: Pro Tools.

Notable Projects

Notable shipped features that I began as innovative skunkworks projects.

Custom Keyboard Shortcuts for Pro Tools
- Developed a customizable keyboard shortcut system for Pro Tools, enabling user-defined key bindings for over 1,000 commands.
- Overcame technical challenges deemed insurmountable by the most senior Avid engineers, delivering a highly desirable feature.
Dark Theme for Pro Tools
- Directed and executed a complete redesign of the Pro Tools user interface, to introduce a modern, neon-themed appearance with extensive customization capabilities.
- Created a shader based image management system for over 5,000 images and 500 colors to enable rapid modifications by the artistic team.
Pro Tools Tutorial Engine
- Designed and implemented an internal tutorial editor within Pro Tools to allow quick creation and deployment of user facing tutorials by designers and product managers.
- Enhanced user learning experience, directly improving user engagement and satisfaction.
Accessibility Enhancements
- Worked with our visually impaired user group to identify and address over a dozen accessibility issues.
- Developed a Pro Tools command launcher built specifically with accessibility in mind.
Flex UI
- Developed a system that allows quick much quicker and more flexible UI developement within Pro Tools
- UI system automatically handled translations, font changes, and very rapid prototyping.

Built working alongside the exceptionally talented Daisuke "Dice" Naito

C++
- Feature development and bug fixing in a massive C++ codebase (more than 100,000 code files)
- Frequent code reviews, discussion of code quality, and efforts to improve quality across the Pro Tools team.
Javascript / React / Node JS
- Built a custom react / node js server component that I wove into our build pipeline
Creative Leadership
- Innovated new creative solutions to long standing problems that had plagued Pro Tools for years.
- Created proposals, gave presentations, and built prototypes to show the value of my ideas.

Avid recognition
- Recieved company wide should outs for my creativity, dedication and innovation on Pro Tools Dark Theme, and other creative projects.
Industry Recognition
- My work on Custom Keyboard Shortcuts has been called a "game changer" by top producers in the music industry
- My work on the custom command launcher was also called out as game changer by leaders of the blind music community
Pro Tools Visibility
- Pro Tools Dark Theme visuals have been featured in many prominent places including Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference and a Meta Quest Pro advertisement.