Rémy and Max on the wild Lost Coast of California
I've been making things since the day my parents dumped a bucket of LEGOs in front of me. My innate desire to create only grew as I built RC (radio-controlled) toys as a kid, captained my high school's FIRST Robotics team and spent most of my college career building race cars with Formula SAE.
After graduating with a Mechanical Engineering degree from UC Davis, I spent a decade learning and growing as a product designer and mechanical engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. During that time I was listed as an inventor on over 10 patents and specialized in pushing emerging technologies towards consumer ready devices.
My time at IDEO (one of the world's premier design firms) was uniquely valuable, giving me a chance to work across numerous fields and essentially providing me with an informal master's degree in human centered design. It taught me how to identify and listen to users to create a product that solves their needs. I pride myself on the ability to strip an idea down to the essentials to ensure that the end product is simple, useful and gimmick free.
When I'm not working or playing in the great outdoors, I'm still designing and building. As a founding member of the FoldHaus art collective I've helped create three amazing sculptural installations for Burning Man and beyond. Our last project, RadiaLumia, allowed me to explore new manufacturing processes and design on a scale that I've never worked with before. The No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museums was wildly successful and, thanks to the exposure, we’ve been working on a few commissioned pieces.
After working for a number of crazy-paced startups, I needed a break, so I built myself a van and moved into it for a year and a half with my partner and my dog. We traveled all over North America indulging in the activities that keep us healthy (if not completely safe): Skiing, Biking and Climbing. You can check out our adventures and misadventures through @MobyGotMoves.
After a brief stints in Reno NV working on Art and a year and a half at NIKE learning all about the intersection of softgoods and consumer electronics, I’m now working at Facebook helping prototype the Future of AR and VR technology. In my free time I’m designing my next van and I still moonlight when time and the right opportunity present themselves.