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FIELD STATION — 37.04° N / 122.06° W — SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS
Designer. Maker. Explorer.
Two decades building hardware, software, and AI — at Apple, Poly, and HP. This is the scenic route through the work.
MISSION BRIEF
I don't hand off Figma files. I write the spec, build the working prototype, and put real software in front of the people who fund it. Three pitches to HP exec leadership. Three funded.
“A deck creates a conversation.
A working prototype creates a decision.”
01 — GROUNDWORK
From a team of two to the second-largest application at HP outside of Print. Spec'd in writing, pitched as a working prototype built in Claude Code, funded by exec leadership — now managing headsets, cameras, rooms, and docks across the enterprise, with AI meeting intelligence in public alpha.
Apple Music, Apple News, WWDC, the Human Interface Guidelines, and a Siri-in-iMessage patent. The foundations my team built for Music and News still ship to hundreds of millions of people every day.
02 — EXPEDITIONS
SOLO · NIGHTS & WEEKENDS · PUBLIC CODE WHERE POSSIBLE
EXPEDITION 01 — VERTICAL
↑ 11.2 M · PACIFIC EDGE, SANTA CRUZ
A climbing tracker for Apple Watch that treats failed attempts as first-class data. The lap detector is a transparent state machine over altimeter and motion — tunable per gym — and the AI observes but never coaches. 273/273 tests passing. On TestFlight.
FULL WRITE-UP ↗EXPEDITION 02 — COASTAL
→ 0.0 M · MONTEREY BAY TIDELINE
Dark Sky, but for experience. King tides, wildlife, and sky events pre-computed by Claude once per region and pinned to a map — so reads are free and the model never runs per-user. The unit economics are the architecture. Live at outlo.app.
OUTLO.APP ↗EXPEDITION 03 — ORBITAL
∞ HELSINKI · $4.50/MO SERVER
An AI trading agent for prediction markets — three tiers of intelligence at three cadences, quarter-Kelly sizing, hard-coded risk limits Claude couldn't override. Paper-traded for five weeks, then shelved on purpose. The honest post-mortem is the deliverable.
POST-MORTEM ↗FIELD ARCHIVE
Beats 1, WWDC17, the HIG, iAd, Specialized — the full archive lives on the quiet side of the mountain.
FIELDNOTES.CC ↗03 — THE ROUTE
04 — SIGNALS
Three fixed points in the public sky.
US 20160360039 · 2016
Siri brokering interactions inside iMessage — without leaving the conversation.
VIEW PATENT ↗US 20160335532 · 2015
Peer-to-peer payments inside a messaging thread, mediated by an assistant.
VIEW PATENT ↗US 20220051541A1 · 2020
Camera-based room occupancy that enforces capacity limits automatically.
VIEW PATENT ↗05 — MAKE CONTACT · LOW EARTH ORBIT
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