Alexandrias Ashes — Generative AI Music VideoFeatured
Rock Hoppers — Opening Cinematic
Intelligence Boxes — Concept Launch Video
Been working on a local first AI assistant called Alfred that answers questions either with LLM knowledge or RAG data which can be populated with news articles that i've read or even the workouts and recipes that I want to do.
Drafted the Network Token definition used in then-Senator JD Vance's 2024 cryptocurrency bill & Montana State Bill 265, passed in 2025. Provided education to legislators, regulators & staffers at every level.
"One of the best resources I know for how we want the decentralized internet to take shape."
Chris Land, Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets
Invented a peer-to-peer specification for a public space for the internet. Initially known as The Decentralized Library of Alexandria, later renamed Open Index Protocol, it's been used for content indexing, distribution & monetization by Imogen Heap, Caltech, Overstock subsidiary Medici Land Governance, the State of Wyoming, MENA's largest independent news platform, Streambed Media & others.
"This is thrilling" — Sir Tim Berners-Lee, dWeb Summit 2016
New Business Models for Content Producers — Protocol LabsFeatured
Alexandria at DWeb SummitDWeb 2016
Yes, that's Sir Tim calling the project "thrilling" at the end.
arXiv: OIP ProtocolOIP mentioned in MIT Media Lab / Berklee School of Music's paper about better approaches to music distribution
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happyowlstudio.com — Hardware · Entrepreneurship
Happy Owl Studio
Hardware · Entrepreneurship · 2010 — 2014
Designed a top-rated iPad accessory on apple.com, but struggled to make overseas manufacturing align with my values. Switched to local manufacturing with sustainable materials and priced ourselves out of the market.
Compositing, motion graphics, post supervisor & VFX on Oscar & Emmy award winners. Front row seat as post production houses went bankrupt and the industry moved offshore.
The Jim Henson Company (3D Lighting/Compositing/Post-Production Pipeline, Sid the Science Kid); digital compositing for major features (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 2012, The Ugly Truth); motion graphics / 3D for unscripted TV.
Also worked with GunMetal Group as a military advisor and on-camera when productions needed authentic tactics, posture, and terminology. Featured on two CBS television shows.
Learned some hard truths about the politics around why the war in Iraq was still on-going and produced a PSA asking President Obama to 'End the War Now' that aired in cities across the US during his inauguration;
with the miniscule budget that the anti war non profit I was working with had available, this required convincing the Flobots to license their song for free, a VFX post house to donate their time,
Beau Weaver (the "trailer voice guy") to work for free and NBC to provide a discounted rate for the broadcast.
Is this a contradiction to the pride I have for my time in the Marine Corps? Perhaps it's got more to do with the duality of man... the Jungian thing.
Benjamin Button, Sid the Science Kid, Deserving Design...
2009 ReelDemo Reel
Sony, Apple, USMC, Independent...
2007 ReelPost Production Reel
GunMetal Group — Show Reel
Includes footage from Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Ends music video, CBS's JAG, Jericho and Cold Case as well as a handful of independent projects. I'm featured on-camera in a few places but the reel is provided here because I edited it (and created the opening 3D animation).
GunMetal Group ReelMilitary Advisor
End the War Now PSA
Featuring the Flobots and the voice of Beau WeaverAnti-War PSA
IMDB Credits
US Marine Corps
US Marine Infantryman
Reserves · 2001 — 2007
Became a Marine two weeks before 9/11. Invasion of Iraq in 2003, got shot at a little bit, blew some stuff up. Deployed to the Horn of Africa & stood watch in 140°+ temps in 2006.
These experiences still inform how I think about technology, policy, and who benefits from the systems we build.
4th Provisional Security Company — Deployment Video
Hasty Edit While Deployed
Better Edit After Coming Home
Counter Terrorism Cross Training with a Yemenese team and some operators with pixelated faces
Helo Insertion Training
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Apple Inc.
Apple Retail
2003 — 2006
One of the first "Creatives"—taught Final Cut Pro and Shake to Apple employees in Cupertino, opened two stores, and worked Apple's booth at NAB and at MacWorld after a Steve Jobs keynote. Top sales at my store ("Million Dollar Club"). Created internal training and hype videos.
Recruited to be one of Apple's earliest batch of Creatives, made a hype video for our store opening
Internal hype video for a quarterly staff meeting
Indie Production · 1996 — 2008
Indie Production
1998 — 2008
Starry-eyed teenager obsessed with the new digital video format. Created one of the first Star Wars fan films. I was the first outside of ILM to turn metal pipes into lightsabers and taught many others in the fan film community how to do it—helping catalyze early fan-film momentum on the web.
Prelude to Hope (1999–2001) & Prelude 2 Hope (2004–2006)
PTH was one of the earliest Star Wars fan films. Shot on Sony's first mini DV camera, the VX1000, cut on Final Cut Pro 1.0, built the VFX from scratch. Went to boot camp before it was finished and the project was lost while I was away. So in 2004, I shot a new version with Sony's first HDV camera, the HVX1000.
Star Wars Fan Film: Prelude to HopeFeatured
15 years before Rogue One, I told the story of how the Death Star plans were stolen
