My origin story begins in a small village in Scotland where I was born and spent my childhood. My family had a tendency to move quite a bit so after Scotland I found myself in California where I developed a deep interest in both art and technology. I loved spending time trying to draw and develop characters and even entered my creations into local comic book contests. I built upon my technology interests spending time writing BASIC games and functions on graphing calculators and sharing them with friends. My art and technology interests started to come together at the University of Colorado where I built several games to include a James Bond inspired racing game (the core idea being that each actor that played James Bond was a drivable character), a voice controlled soccer game, and even a pong clone for the xbox using the xbox developer kit. But, it didn’t stop there, I also used my time in college to build animated sequences which included the Linux penguin playing soccer and a replica of the Pixar Luxo Jr. animated short. The culmination of my computer graphics education was the successful defense and publication of my thesis which focused on seamlessly merging multiple independent animation sequences.

After graduating from the University of Colorado and working as a software engineer for several years, I learned about a career field called ‘product management’. It was as if a light bulb went off above my head. This ‘light bulb’ moment changed my life and I knew that Product was something that I needed to be a part of. The impact of this moment was so great that I pivoted my career from engineering to product and together with my family, we journeyed up to the pacific northwest to join a newly created product development group. I also wanted to build upon my business background so I decided to pursue graduate school at Carnegie Mellon with a focus on software management.

Fast forward a few years and I’m now a seasoned product pro building products in media, entertainment, and gaming. My goal is to build products that delight and inspire. In my heart and at my core, I will always be the small town kid who dreams big and is excited at what the future holds.