Clients
Recent Projects
Sentisonics — A real-time tool for recognizing complex chord-scale relationships and assigning emotional weight to melody & harmony by Thundercat’s Dennis Hamm
The Blank Slate — San Diego Secret Shows
Résumé
Experience:
Oct 2022 - Now: Independent artist manager, producer, videographer (San Diego, CA)
Manager for PLEXUSPLAY, a jazz-trained vibraphonist and EDM producer
Overhauled website & revamping social media presence
Establishing passive income sources through merchandise, audience engagement, and software development projects
Booking performances at new festivals, events, and venues
Manager for Marcel Camargo, a Brazilian jazz guitarist, composer, and arranger
Establishing structure, release schedules, creative goals, and renewed direction to several ongoing and new projects/collaborations
Manager, Producer & Mixing Engineer for demos of Suite for Altazor:/vocablos sin sombra, Daniel Zermeño Gutierrez’s debut release and a musical reimagining of Vicente Huidobro’s monumental 1931 poetry book
Managed pre-production to help Daniel finish draft compositions within 1 month, and crafted album arc, themes, and instrumentation alongside Daniel
Booked session players, videographer, recording engineers, and studio time, and scheduled/managed/produced/budgeted recording sessions
Prepared written material, videos, and mixes for Tiny Desk & grant proposals, booked tour across various cities in Southern California, established merchandise manufacturing for said tour
Videographer for bassist Mark Dresser
Filmed & edited A Book of Infernos, a live performance/poetry reading by Mark and poet Jerome Rothenberg at The Loft, UCSD in May 2023
Filmed & edited promotional material for Mark’s 2023 release Tines of Change
Producer for upcoming folk/jazz/bossa album by composer, lyricist, & vocalist Ege Yalçinbas
Managed pre-production between Ege and arranger/musical director Daniel Zermeño Gutierrez
Scheduled/managed/produced/budgeted multi-day demo and final recording sessions at different studios
Selected/booked full rhythm, horn, and string sections as well as harp/percussion players, and performed on flute
Feb 2024 - Now: Software Engineer with Sentisonics (San Diego, CA)
Developing scalable code architecture for frontend & backend components of Sentisonics with Dennis Hamm
Expanding capabilities of real-time audio engine processing chord-scale relationships & tuned emotional weights
Nov 2023 - Now: Venue owner, audio engineer, booker, promoter, & manager of The Blank Slate, my secret black-box-meets-living-room concert venue (San Diego, CA)
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021: Producer & teaching assistant for UCSD MUS 95JC (La Jolla, CA)
Assisted Kamau Kenyatta in adapting the UCSD MUS 95JC Jazz Chamber Ensembles course to an online format during the COVID-19 pandemic
Audio engineer and videographer for numerous horn, guitar, bass, Rhodes, & drum kit tracking sessions in home studio, adhering strictly to COVID lab safety protocols
Produced, mixed, and video edited pieces each quarter for release on the UCSD Music YouTube channel (WI20 Showcase, SP21 Showcase, Pat’s Picks)
Jun 2018 - Now: Software engineer/consultant (San Diego, CA)
Software engineer with MagCanica, Inc (ongoing)
Software engineer with Qualcomm, Inc. (ended Oct 2023)
Software consultant with consulting firms Advanced Technologies Integration, Inc., and StuDev (ended Jun 2022), as well as independent software consultation (ongoing)
Education:
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022: Master of Science in Computer Science, specialization in Artificial Intelligence, University of California San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
Selected Coursework: Computational Algorithms (MUS 270C), Validation/Testing of Embedded Systems (CSE 237C), Machine Learning Methods for 3D Geometry (CSE 291), Structured Prediction for NLP (CSE 291)
Aug 2018 - Dec 2021: Dual Bachelors of Science in Computer Science & Cognitive Science (spec. Machine Learning & Neural Computation), with minors in Music & Biology, University of California San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
Selected Coursework: Jazz Theory & Improvisation (MUS 137), Musical Acoustics (MUS 170), Computer Music I/II (MUS 171/172), AI: Probabilistic Models (CSE 150A), Deep Learning (CSE 154), Lab to Market (MGT 412, 414A/B)
Publications: FishSense: Underwater RGBD Imaging for Fish Measurement,
Triton Robosub Technical Design Report 2020: COVID-19 Edition,
Triton Robosub Technical Design Report 2019: RaActivities: MicroMBA, Rady School of Management Lab to Market; President/Founder, Triton Robosub; President, Role Playing Games Club