About
Two decades ago, I began my career as a pilot and flight instructor at Purdue University Airport. From there, I joined United Parcel Service working as an Industrial Engineer, before transitioning to tech - pivoting from Industrial Engineer to Software Engineer.
I worked for several years at Bakken & Bæck building complex and interesting products and, last year, moved from agency to startup. Currently, I'm helping Pitch imagine new ways of communicating visually and leading a multi-disciplinary team to build features for the core product.
Work Experience
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lead a team of 5 engineers, 1 designer, and 3 multi-disciplinary folks to shape, build, and execute
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created the vision and strategy and led the execution for the complete animation suite
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rapid, exploratory prototyping to validate unconventional solutions
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built internal component library tooling (similar to Storybook) in Clojure
Projects
Identified and removed large blocker to user adoption by building an animation suite that is now a differentiating and well-loved feature.
Explored and prototyped various concepts that were the pre-cursor to the now, fully realised animation suite.
This included early exploration work with dynamic, custom cursors and an interactive mode of presenting that resulted in a primary differentiating feature called focus effect.
At Bakken & Bæck, I dreamed up På(fyll) - a circular service aiming to reduce single use plastic from everyday home and personal care. As the Lead Engineer and Product Owner, I led a team and partnered with external stakeholders to turn the idea from project to viable business.
A digital singing experience filled with beautifully pre-recorded songs by some of Norway’s most prominent artists.
A series of digital experiments to imagine new ways of living.
I built an app and API to connect and control IKEA's Trådfri smart blinds. Experimenting with mindful manipulation of the window blinds, I created a functional solution to embrace the light and welcome the dark according to the weather and time of day.
A digital service that simplifies and reforms the traditional real estate model.
As one of two frontend engineers, I built the first version of both the user-facing and admin platforms using React, Gatsby, and Yarn workspaces on a Python backend.
A cryptocurrency platform that provides universal access to financial services
I was responsible for early stage development work on integrating DApps into a platform called Toshi, which later became Coinbase Wallet.
Side Projects
Created a small package to fetch project colors from Figma and generate custom CSS properties.
Experimented with iOS widgets and Shortcuts scripts. Published a Shortcut that will update your iPhone wallpaper automatically (at sunrise if you choose) to the NASA picture of the day.
Awards
Together with my colleagues, we won the DOGA Service Design Award for our work on Samsolgt - a service that disrupts the traditional real estate industry.
Fast Company named Bakken & Bæck one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2020, together with notable companies like Nike, Webflow and Form Us With Love.
Education
Formalised my self-taught development skills through this intensive dev bootcamp.
Studied global affairs with a focus on environmental policy.
Studied Aviation Technology and became a certified pilot and flight instructor with multi-engine and instrument ratings.
Certifications
Commercial license with multi-engine and instrument ratings