With 17 years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning enterprise software, aerospace, decentralized networks, and media, I specialize in bridging the gap between complex organizational logistics and high-fidelity human experiences. My core strengths combine strategic vision with systems engineering and project management, ranging from event production, architecting community governance frameworks, and crafting operational handbooks to product roadmapping and information design.
I excel at managing the chaotic, moving parts of an early-stage project and driving them across the finish line. My sweet spot is co-creating project or event DNA: helping birth new initiatives into form and establishing a clear foundational direction that teams can build upon, rather than maintaining ongoing operations.
My background is split across two core execution engines:
• Product Leadership & Creative Direction: I sculpt the essential human touch-points that define a project, including naming, aesthetics, positioning, and user experience. While I am fluent in graphic design, technical writing, AI art, and community building, I also bring a founder’s perspective. I can provide insightful review of contributor work and help guide multi-disciplinary technical teams from day zero to day one.
• Event Operations & Experiential Curation: I design, budget, produce, and operate dynamic, multi-track events and international symposia. I thrive on weaving together artistic direction, thoughtful curation, and narrative design to create spaces where knowledge cross-pollinates and communities connect.
I recently stepped away from traditional professional development to dedicate focused time to a primary passion project: writing an experimental book on consciousness and human psychology. With the manuscript now nearing completion, I am ready to channel my energy back into a collaborative team environment to build the operational foundations for new initiatives. Alongside my active career search, I also maintain BLAXXKY, an independent, personal passion magazine project exploring technology, space, and philosophy. Both my writing and publishing pursuits are entirely self-contained, ensuring my core focus and daily commitment are fully dedicated to my primary professional role.
If you are looking for a versatile generalist who can adapt to complex logistics, direct creative vision, and navigate the unexpected to deliver time-sensitive programming, let's connect on Signal (stellarmagnet.77).
I excel at managing the chaotic, moving parts of an early-stage project and driving them across the finish line. My sweet spot is co-creating project or event DNA: helping birth new initiatives into form and establishing a clear foundational direction that teams can build upon, rather than maintaining ongoing operations.
My background is split across two core execution engines:
• Product Leadership & Creative Direction: I sculpt the essential human touch-points that define a project, including naming, aesthetics, positioning, and user experience. While I am fluent in graphic design, technical writing, AI art, and community building, I also bring a founder’s perspective. I can provide insightful review of contributor work and help guide multi-disciplinary technical teams from day zero to day one.
• Event Operations & Experiential Curation: I design, budget, produce, and operate dynamic, multi-track events and international symposia. I thrive on weaving together artistic direction, thoughtful curation, and narrative design to create spaces where knowledge cross-pollinates and communities connect.
I recently stepped away from traditional professional development to dedicate focused time to a primary passion project: writing an experimental book on consciousness and human psychology. With the manuscript now nearing completion, I am ready to channel my energy back into a collaborative team environment to build the operational foundations for new initiatives. Alongside my active career search, I also maintain BLAXXKY, an independent, personal passion magazine project exploring technology, space, and philosophy. Both my writing and publishing pursuits are entirely self-contained, ensuring my core focus and daily commitment are fully dedicated to my primary professional role.
If you are looking for a versatile generalist who can adapt to complex logistics, direct creative vision, and navigate the unexpected to deliver time-sensitive programming, let's connect on Signal (stellarmagnet.77).
Highlights and Milestones (2016-Present)
I believe in taking bold risks to ground visionary dreams into reality, operating from a foundation of hope and optimism to unfold more beautiful, liberatory possibilities for humanity. This philosophy drove my nearly decade-long exploration (2016–2025) into the frontier where open-source software, free speech, censorship resistance, and cryptocurrency intersect.
Decentalized Autonomous Space Agency Era (2016-2021)
In late 2016, I co-founded Space Cooperative, a worker-owned cooperative with a mission to build a citizen-led, crowdsourced, and crowdfunded space program. This vision eventually evolved into Space Decentral, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) designed to orchestrate open space exploration. I served as the primary organizational representative, advocating for this new paradigm through speaking slots at major international conferences, including the UK Space Conference, Devcon, the Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX), the Starship Congress, and the International Astronautical Congress (IAC).
While the project was admittedly ahead of its time and never fully launched, it left a distinct mark on the decentralized space ecosystem, receiving coverage in Vice and even becoming the subject of an academic master’s thesis.
I believe in taking bold risks to ground visionary dreams into reality, operating from a foundation of hope and optimism to unfold more beautiful, liberatory possibilities for humanity. This philosophy drove my nearly decade-long exploration (2016–2025) into the frontier where open-source software, free speech, censorship resistance, and cryptocurrency intersect.
Decentalized Autonomous Space Agency Era (2016-2021)
In late 2016, I co-founded Space Cooperative, a worker-owned cooperative with a mission to build a citizen-led, crowdsourced, and crowdfunded space program. This vision eventually evolved into Space Decentral, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) designed to orchestrate open space exploration. I served as the primary organizational representative, advocating for this new paradigm through speaking slots at major international conferences, including the UK Space Conference, Devcon, the Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX), the Starship Congress, and the International Astronautical Congress (IAC).
While the project was admittedly ahead of its time and never fully launched, it left a distinct mark on the decentralized space ecosystem, receiving coverage in Vice and even becoming the subject of an academic master’s thesis.
Zine and Event Production (2020-2023)
Following this chapter, I shifted my focus to smaller, highly curated initiatives, exploring the intersections of independent print and digital media, and both virtual and in-person event production via Black Sky Society. As a confluence of thinkers, artists, scientists, and technologists, we created experimental spaces where research and art seamlessly converged.
Following this chapter, I shifted my focus to smaller, highly curated initiatives, exploring the intersections of independent print and digital media, and both virtual and in-person event production via Black Sky Society. As a confluence of thinkers, artists, scientists, and technologists, we created experimental spaces where research and art seamlessly converged.
As a Black Sky Society founder and visionary, I took hands-on ownership of the full production lifecycle for these initiatives, orchestrating everything from grant writing and fundraising over $150,000 in sponsorships to creative branding, social media marketing, programming curation, multi-track scheduling, and attendee registration management.
This comprehensive operational work manifested in the publication of the Black Sky Nexus digital zine and the Post-Web print zine, alongside the end-to-end execution of the Azimuth virtual event (December '20), the Autonomous Ecologies international symposia (Denver in March '23 and Paris in July '23), the Post-Web Seance (Brussels '24) and the Ephemeral gathering (Istanbul in November '23).
This comprehensive operational work manifested in the publication of the Black Sky Nexus digital zine and the Post-Web print zine, alongside the end-to-end execution of the Azimuth virtual event (December '20), the Autonomous Ecologies international symposia (Denver in March '23 and Paris in July '23), the Post-Web Seance (Brussels '24) and the Ephemeral gathering (Istanbul in November '23).
Radicle (Sep 2023 - July 2024)
Served as lead author of the user and protocol guides for Radicle 1.0, and conceived the initial alien-themed AI art that established the aesthetic of the Radicle universe. Created and designed the Notion architecture of the product roadmap and lead workshops and working groups to establisht the roadmpa. Designed and developed multiple in-person and virtual events and workshops, including branding, registration management and social media marketing.
Served as lead author of the user and protocol guides for Radicle 1.0, and conceived the initial alien-themed AI art that established the aesthetic of the Radicle universe. Created and designed the Notion architecture of the product roadmap and lead workshops and working groups to establisht the roadmpa. Designed and developed multiple in-person and virtual events and workshops, including branding, registration management and social media marketing.
AssangeDAO (Winter 2021/2022)
As an early contributor and volunteer to , I helped drive strategy, war room ops, social media marketing, governance, and community initiatives that led to raising over $50M for Julian Assange's legal defense. Our fundraising success played a key role in the broader campaign for his freedom, while establishing new precedents for DAO-powered activism.
As an early contributor and volunteer to , I helped drive strategy, war room ops, social media marketing, governance, and community initiatives that led to raising over $50M for Julian Assange's legal defense. Our fundraising success played a key role in the broader campaign for his freedom, while establishing new precedents for DAO-powered activism.
Laconic Network (Apr 2021 - Sep 2021)
Helped fundraise over $140K in grants, wrote product specs, organized the roadmap, managed engineering teams, copyedited/reviewed the white paper, and contributed to the creation of systems engineering diagrams. Introduced the founder, Rick Dudley, to his initial co-founder who played a key role in fundraising $8M for the project.
Helped fundraise over $140K in grants, wrote product specs, organized the roadmap, managed engineering teams, copyedited/reviewed the white paper, and contributed to the creation of systems engineering diagrams. Introduced the founder, Rick Dudley, to his initial co-founder who played a key role in fundraising $8M for the project.
Misc. Organizations (2018-2022)
I've dabbled in other corners of the cryptocurrency realm, and have made contributions to projects like MolochDAO (managing a $4M grants treasury and developing DAO handbook), BrightID (early UX design), Althea (router dashboard UX design), and Namada (reviewing/copyediting community mission statement).
I've dabbled in other corners of the cryptocurrency realm, and have made contributions to projects like MolochDAO (managing a $4M grants treasury and developing DAO handbook), BrightID (early UX design), Althea (router dashboard UX design), and Namada (reviewing/copyediting community mission statement).
Past Life (2003-2016)
I am a lifelong learner. My professional journey is split into two distinct phases: pre- and post-2016. In my past life (2006–2016), I navigated the corporate and startup realms as a hybrid product manager, project engineer, and UI/UX designer, ultimately culminating in a Senior Product Manager role at Oracle.
My foundation in systems thinking and logistical data modeling was built during my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley (2003–2008). During this formative era, I cut my teeth as an engineering intern and project engineer at firms like DMJM Harris and Lea+Elliott, translating complex data sets to map transit ridership patterns and draft vital technical reports for major municipal clients.
Upon graduating, I pivoted into the fast-paced digital media landscape at LimeLife, Inc. (2008).As an Associate Product Manager, I carried out critical market research, designed user flows and interaction specifications for the "MySnaps" social shopping community, and managed end-to-end quality assurance. This early immersion in building digital communities sparked a deep fascination with human-centered design, prompting me to further formalize my toolkit with a User Experience certification course at the Academy of Art University (2015).
Between 2010 and 2014, I continued to sharpen my execution style in both corporate and agency spaces. At Tactara LLC, I stepped into the dual shoes of Scrum Master and Product Evangelist, directing usability studies and designing campaign scheduling tools that systematically drove a 10x workflow productivity increase for our engineering teams. Later, as a Senior Product Manager at Oracle Corporation (2014–2016), I managed complex project lifecycles across matrixed enterprise teams, translating dense business rules into creative, tablet-friendly dashboard designs and analytics solutions.
My deep passion for the cosmos eventually drew me back to my technical roots. I capped off this chapter of my life by earning an Astronautical Engineering Certificate from UCLA Extension (2016, 4.0 GPA). This intense deep-dive into space environments and rocket propulsion served as the perfect structural bridge, launching me directly out of the traditional corporate world and into the visionary, decentralized aerospace and DAO architectures I would go on to build next.
I am a lifelong learner. My professional journey is split into two distinct phases: pre- and post-2016. In my past life (2006–2016), I navigated the corporate and startup realms as a hybrid product manager, project engineer, and UI/UX designer, ultimately culminating in a Senior Product Manager role at Oracle.
My foundation in systems thinking and logistical data modeling was built during my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley (2003–2008). During this formative era, I cut my teeth as an engineering intern and project engineer at firms like DMJM Harris and Lea+Elliott, translating complex data sets to map transit ridership patterns and draft vital technical reports for major municipal clients.
Upon graduating, I pivoted into the fast-paced digital media landscape at LimeLife, Inc. (2008).As an Associate Product Manager, I carried out critical market research, designed user flows and interaction specifications for the "MySnaps" social shopping community, and managed end-to-end quality assurance. This early immersion in building digital communities sparked a deep fascination with human-centered design, prompting me to further formalize my toolkit with a User Experience certification course at the Academy of Art University (2015).
Between 2010 and 2014, I continued to sharpen my execution style in both corporate and agency spaces. At Tactara LLC, I stepped into the dual shoes of Scrum Master and Product Evangelist, directing usability studies and designing campaign scheduling tools that systematically drove a 10x workflow productivity increase for our engineering teams. Later, as a Senior Product Manager at Oracle Corporation (2014–2016), I managed complex project lifecycles across matrixed enterprise teams, translating dense business rules into creative, tablet-friendly dashboard designs and analytics solutions.
My deep passion for the cosmos eventually drew me back to my technical roots. I capped off this chapter of my life by earning an Astronautical Engineering Certificate from UCLA Extension (2016, 4.0 GPA). This intense deep-dive into space environments and rocket propulsion served as the perfect structural bridge, launching me directly out of the traditional corporate world and into the visionary, decentralized aerospace and DAO architectures I would go on to build next.
