Products

Stem Studio is an incubator-backed Workplay Ventures product for browser-based 3D creation. The core bet was ambitious and concrete: bring a Unity-style creation environment to the web, so creators could build and interact with 3D scenes without a desktop toolchain.

• Web-based 3D editor: Designed around the mental model of Unity, but delivered in the browser.
• Creator workflow: Focused on reducing setup friction for people building interactive 3D content.
• Product direction: Framed the product as a serious creation environment, not a lightweight viewer.
• The engine has been open sourced and is available at https://buildwithstem.com

StemStudio sat inside the Workplay Ventures studio portfolio as an incubator-backed project. I helped move the concept from product thesis into the operating work needed to test and launch it.

• Product thesis to prototype: shaped the initial product direction and helped turn the thesis into something the team could build and evaluate.
• Funding story: supported the narrative needed to explain the opportunity, product, and path forward.
• Team formation: helped define the early team needs required to move from concept to execution.
• Release support and growth: supported the work around launch readiness, release execution, and early growth.

Platform and operations foundation for global smart-glass deployments, building management, and enterprise support.

The platform connected device operations, deployment support, NOC workflows, customer and admin portals, weather prediction, energy planning, digital twins, on-prem compute clusters, security, and deep learning tools for error isolation.

Doppler Labs built consumer audio products around Here One, smart earbuds that combined wireless listening with real-time control over the sound around the user. The product sat at the intersection of consumer hardware, companion mobile software, personal audio profiles, and accessibility use cases.

Smart earbuds: Shaped product work around Here One as a connected audio device, not just a headphone.

Companion app: Connected the hardware experience to mobile controls for listening modes, profiles, and user settings.

Personal listening profile: Supported individualized audio experiences based on user preferences and hearing needs.

Adaptive audio: Helped define product behavior for changing environments and real-time sound control.

Accessibility technology: Positioned personal listening as both a consumer feature and a practical aid for users who needed more control over speech, noise, and ambient sound.

Doppler Labs built Here One, a pair of wireless smart earbuds for personal listening and real-time control of the surrounding audio environment. The product combined consumer hardware, embedded audio processing, mobile software, and manufacturing constraints in a very small form factor.

I led software and hardware execution from concept to manufacturing, including:

• Audio pipeline on an 11mm PCB: Guided execution for embedded audio processing inside a tightly constrained earbud architecture.
• Remote update paths: Built update paths across system components so the product could improve after shipment.
• Personalization technology: Delivered adaptive listening features that shaped the listening experience for each user.

Microsoft’s communications and collaboration portfolio spans consumer Skype, enterprise Skype for Business, and Microsoft Teams, with Teams later becoming the company’s primary collaboration hub across chat, meetings, files, and Microsoft 365 workflows. This work sat across that transition point, covering cross-platform product and engineering across established products, new collaboration surfaces, and platform infrastructure.

• Skype mobile and Skype for Business: Product and engineering work across consumer and enterprise communications experiences.
• Qik and early Teams: Collaboration product work during Microsoft’s shift toward newer mobile video and team-based communication models.
• VS Code, notifications, and HoloLens prototypes: Platform and prototype work across developer tooling, notification infrastructure, and mixed-reality collaboration concepts.

Microsoft’s communications stack spans consumer calling, enterprise collaboration, developer tools, cloud services, and mixed reality. This work sat across that surface area: Skype, early Microsoft Teams work, VS Code product case support, Microsoft Notification Server architecture planning, and Skype/HoloLens prototyping.

• Skype client-side engineering leadership: Led engineering work on the client side of Skype, a global voice, video, and messaging platform used across consumer and business communication.
• Early Teams participation: Contributed as a founding participant in early Microsoft Teams work, before Teams became Microsoft’s primary collaboration hub for chat, meetings, calling, and Microsoft 365 workflows.
• VS Code product case support: Supported product case work for Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s open-source code editor and developer platform.
• Microsoft Notification Server architecture planning: Helped plan architecture for Microsoft Notification Server, aligning notification delivery decisions with platform needs.
• Skype/HoloLens prototyping: Built prototypes connecting Skype communication patterns with HoloLens mixed reality scenarios.

Mobile app ecosystem, SDK, carrier, Android video calling, VoIP, IMS client, AMSS, Snapdragon, and UPNP platform work.

The product work spanned feature phones, Android phones, application SDKs, platform services, carrier integrations, app distribution, communication systems, and Qualcomm platform software foundations.

Workplay Ventures spans AI products, consumer experiences, web games, poker, and mobile games. The portfolio includes public and private work across nspo.ai, .Erth, Erth.AI, Stamps, Applause, Ask G, Membrain, Book of Life, Build Island, GardenParty.gg, and related game products.

• Portfolio product leadership: Shaped and supported multiple products across AI, games, and consumer software.
• Mixed public and private work: Contributed across products with different stages, audiences, and visibility.
• Broad product surface area: Covered web games, poker, mobile games, AI products, and social consumer experiences.

Workplay Ventures developed a mix of public AI and game products alongside private portfolio bets. I supported the work across the early company-building arc: prototypes, fundraising, hiring, operating cadence, go-to-market, release maintenance, and growth.

• Early product prototypes: Helped shape and test initial AI and game product concepts before broader release decisions.
• Fundraising support: Contributed to materials, product framing, and diligence preparation for investor conversations.
• CEO and team hiring: Supported leadership and team formation for early-stage product execution.
• Operating rhythm: Helped establish day-to-day planning, review, and execution practices across the portfolio.
• GTM and growth: Supported launch planning, market positioning, release maintenance, and growth work for public products.
• Portfolio confidentiality: Kept private or request-only products out of public materials until cleared.

Sipdroid, described as the first Android SIP client, and the SayNow Android client before SayNow was acquired by Google.

This work connected SIP, Android client development, and consumer voice communication products at a very early stage of Android voice application development.

EHR, NAS, satellite communications, customer technical sales, professional telecom publishing, Android voice clients, and embedded systems delivery across VxWorks, QNX, and Linux.

The work combined sales pipeline development, technical project wins, customer liaison responsibilities, professional IMS/LTE/VoLTA/VoLTE publishing, Android SIP and voice client work, and principal architecture for systems delivered to customers including Hughes Networks, Alcatel Lucent, Nokia, Siemens, and Comcast.

Geofencing infrastructure delivered for Alcatel Lucent's Innovation Lab.

This work connected principal architecture and delivery execution for location-aware telecom infrastructure in an innovation-lab setting.

Professional newsletter covering IMS, LTE, VoLTA, and VoLTE for telecom practitioners and customers.

The newsletter supported technical sales, customer education, and market credibility by translating telecom standards and architecture topics into useful professional guidance.

Early campus education portal venture before Hughes Systique.

This work captured early founder experience across product definition, platform build, campus user workflows, and education-focused market validation.

Virtual operating system work across VxWorks, Linux, QNX, Solaris, and Unix, described as a predecessor pattern to Docker-style isolation.

This innovation-team work explored operating-system abstraction and isolation concepts across real-time, embedded, and Unix-like operating systems before container platforms became mainstream.

SIGTRAN stack work across SCTP, M3UA, M2UA, backhaul, and softswitch systems for customers including Cisco and Danger Mobile.

This work covered carrier-grade signaling, backhaul, and softswitch architecture for telecom and mobile infrastructure customers, including Danger Mobile before its acquisition by T-Mobile.

A mobile-first early social product for Facebook, built around lightweight prompts and group participation. The work sat close to Facebook’s broader social graph and Groups experience, where small interaction loops mattered for engagement and repeat use.

• First implementation for Facebook Groups product: Built the initial product direction around group-based participation.
• Mobile-first experience: Designed for quick posting and response patterns on mobile.
• Lightweight social prompts: Used simple prompts to lower the effort required to start conversations inside groups.

This product explored prompt-driven social sharing inside Facebook Groups, a core part of Facebook’s community product. The work sat in an early social-product context, before lightweight prompts and status-style engagement patterns became common across consumer apps.

It focused on a simple product question: how to make it easier for people to share what they were thinking with a group, without needing to compose a full post from scratch.

Coupon-based health deals platform focused on health-related local offers.

Healthy Deals combined local commerce, coupon mechanics, merchant participation, and consumer discovery for health-related services and offers.

Yelp-like local discovery product for massage and spa parlors.

The product focused on directory structure, local search, listing detail, review-style discovery, and vertical-specific marketplace workflows.

Yelp-like directory products for Jewish and Halal grocery stores.

These products explored community-specific local discovery, grocery store listings, location workflows, and practical search for culturally specific commerce needs.

Custom iOS keyboard products and mobile utility experiments.

The keyboard work covered compact mobile interaction patterns, utility-focused product design, and platform-constrained iOS extension development.