Thirty years, three disciplines, one set of hands.

TL;DR: I've spent decades across financial and government backend software development, live television production, motion graphics direction in Cinema 4D and After Effects, web architecture, and telecom engineering — and I've appeared on CBS, Fox, NBC and networks worldwide talking about it, which still feels like a strange sentence to write about myself.

I've produced over 1,000 live news press conferences, 150+ podcast episodes and 300+ radio spots, and directed dozens of commercial shoots along the way. I produce the annual Rage for Justice Awards every year — live concerts with Jackson Browne and Tom Morello — have directed show commercials featuring Jane Fonda, and have worked with Bernie Sanders more times than I've bothered to log.

The engineering came first, and it's the part of the bio nobody asks about at parties. Before any of the advocacy work I spent years in financial and government backend development, and the job that actually shaped me was telecom: in 2007 I built a predictive dialer for a merchant processor running on 196 POTS lines — a full call centre floor plus the corporate office behind it — and did the PCI pinpad injections myself, because there was nobody else in the building to hand that to.[^1]

That's an unglamorous line on a CV and it's the entire reason the rest of this works. Somebody who has personally terminated two hundred copper pairs and handled payment-card key injection has a fundamentally different relationship with “it should just work” than somebody who has only ever deployed to a platform someone else built underneath them.

Consumer Watchdog’s platforms — ConsumerWatchdog.org, CapitolWatchdog.org, OilWatchdog.org, InsideGoogle.com, NewsomWellWatch.com, PatientsForFairness.org — were built from the server up rather than assembled from a template, and I rebuilt the whole estate, including its telephony, once I decided the old one genuinely could not carry what the organisation needed anymore. One person, end to end, still.

Direction and camera work for nonprofits includes LINK (Liberation in North Korea), Save the Children, The Anne Frank Foundation, Make Her Beautiful and Dolphin Outreach.

[^1]: I do not recommend learning PCI pinpad injection from a manual at midnight before a floor goes live. I did. It worked. I would still not recommend it. 😅