Published Index

ClownJewels began as a personal experiment in rapid game design — within six days, a puzzle prototype grew into a noir-inspired world built around compounding mechanics, progression systems, and original music.

• game design
• puzzle strategy
• asynchronous multiplayer
• progression systems
• worldbuilding
• rapid prototyping
• live ops
• social onboarding
• original soundtrack
• independent game development

Built and performed with a Los Angeles long-form improv team around a distinctive evolving form.

• improv
• performance
• dreamwave
• jts-brown

Led creative and product direction across the fan experience, collectible economy, quests, pack opening, progression, and LiveOps.

• games
• sports
• collectibles
• liveops
• fan-engagement

Spectiv is my attempt to design a product around investigation rather than information.

• creator-tools
• fan-engagement
• product-strategy

Every feature exists for the same reason: to reduce the invisible work that creative groups do every week so they can spend more time creating together.

• creator-tools
• collaboration

The result became Run It, a creative operating system designed to help creators spend less time organizing their work and more time making it.

• games
• sports
• social

My transition from advertising operations into product management while building machine-learning products, audience systems, and a real-time demand-side platform for mobile games.

• machine learning
• advertising technology
• ad tech
• demand-side platform
• programmatic advertising
• real-time bidding
• marketplaces
• automation
• systems thinking
• behavioral economics

What if it was the beginning of a world that continued to grow alongside you?

• games
• social
• trivia

Led product strategy, original game design, LiveOps, monetization, and the evolution of Lucky Day into a multi-title game studio.

• games
• liveops
• monetization

A five-question framework for understanding how participant investments compound in persistent systems.

• compounding
• product-strategy
• systems

On what changes when participation becomes abundant.

• participation
• consumption
• systems

Escalation Loops explores how interventions change the systems we are trying to understand, revealing deeper questions and creating a recursive process of discovery.

• systems
• product-discovery
• anthropology
• improvisation
• daoism
• complex-systems
• product-design

Dreamwave wasn't just an improv team. It became an exercise in designing the identity of a creative project, from its visual language and documentation to its community, performances, and public presence.

• improv
• dreamwave
• performance
• ensemble

For more than a decade, music was my primary creative outlet. Coastlines became the home for original tracks, DJ mixes, and a period of my life spent immersed in electronic music and the communities that formed around it.

• music
• sound
• coastlines