work

Transfer Thought (co-founder and CTO)

I co-founded Transfer Thought with the vision that subject matter experts should be able to develop virtual reality simulations without needing to hire a team of software developers.

In 2024, we spoke at events. We built open-source examples for the VR community. We pushed the boundaries of VR interactions.
In 2023, we on-boarded our biggest client ever. We continued to ship. Leveraging LLM's, I launched a Customizable Soft Skills Simulation Builder. I prioritized performance and stability. I created a free course to learn the basics of VR development.
In 2022, Transfer Thought was accepted into TechStars. I expanded my efforts into more areas of building a business. I created financial models to track efforts, used the job to be done system for customer insight, and launched again and again. We continued onboarding clients.
In 2021, I co-hosted a virtual reality networking event for the safety industry. We learned from our customers. We redesigned the app to be as simple as possible by drawing inspiration from a tool our customers used daily - Power Point.
In 2020, we built the initial Transfer Thought no-code editor for VR. We dog fooded our platform, using it to make apps to land our first clients. This momentum helped us raise our first angel check.

Trading Technologies

Trading Technologies was a 25 year old company with a working product when I started. I joined the team to facilitate the company's pivot from its traditional offerings to a cloud-based future.

Throughout my three years, I was able to work on some challenging problems:

creating a deployment system to smoothly introduce updates to specific groups of users, ensuring the right changes reach the right people.
managing the web teams application and database servers
building an advanced trader preferences system
incrementally migrating our database being managed in-house using MongoDB to using Amazon's DynamoDB, for better efficiency and scalability.
using web workers to handle heavy-duty tasks without slowing down the main website, keeping everything running fast.