I spent most of my career at Harvard Medical School, moving from IT support into biological software engineering and eventually creative direction — then left to become a full-time parent, write two novels, and keep freelancing along the way. Currently open to creative director roles.

Harvard Medical School, 2005–2013

Creative Director, Wall Lab, Center for Biomedical Informatics — 2010–2013
Managed a small team of web developers building research tools for the lab. Designed and built Autworks and Puzzlemouse, platforms for caregivers and people with autism.

Biological Software Engineer, Wall Lab, Center for Biomedical Informatics — 2007–2010
Lead developer of the Roundup Orthology Database — a large-scale orthology website, database, and computational pipeline computing gene relationships across more than 2,000 organisms, a workload exceeding 100 CPU-core-years.

IT Desktop Support, Harvard Health Publications & Countway Library — 2005–2007
Supported 60+ staff and public infrastructure across the library and two teaching classrooms. Promoted into the research lab on the strength of this work.

(If you want the long version of how “IT support” turned into “creative director,” including a colleague catching me off-guard in an elevator and one particularly bad idea involving a fake office fire — I told the whole story at Wrongcards.)

Independent work, 2013–present

Since leaving Harvard, I’ve written two novels, built a long-running newsletter, and kept a steady freelance practice alongside full-time caregiving:

• Cadnano — website design and build for the Autodesk-sponsored DNA nanostructure design tool
• BIOMOD — built biomod.net and designed the logo for the International Bio-Nanotechnology Design Competition. In 2014, I served on the judging panel
• Comedy Central — ecard promotions for Workaholics and Guy Code Douglas Lab, UCSF — website build, currently mid-refresh
• popupCAD — website build for the laminate-device design tool out of the Harvard Microrobotics Lab

I also design, write, and maintain Wrongcards, a satirical ecards site I founded in 2008 that’s still running — I’ve done every part of it myself: illustration, copy, the Go backend, and server administration.

Elsewhere

I write My Blameless Life on Substack, and I’m the author of The Harvard Skull Fiasco and Rise of the Blue Bandicoot, available here.

Currently looking for creative director opportunities. Get in touch.