Proof - The Days @ Fabric Interactive

Fabric Interactive was a digital / interactive agency located in Los Angeles, CA. When I started there, we worked on a variety of projects for big brands, developed and hosted 50 or so custom web properties for SMBs. For most of our time we focused on FFF, Seed, and Series A product advising and development. During my time, I wore hats as a backend engineer, full-stack engineer, solution architect, product manager, project manager, tech lead, UX architect, CTO, consulting CTO. My actual titles ranged from backend engineer to CTO.

These are a few of our projects, products, mistakes, and more - plucked from the depths of the internet archives - to share with you.

Products, Projects, and Cool Stuff

  • Compass Health - Client Product - HealthTech

    Physician facing & Client facing Mobile applications supporting patient care and follow ups with medication and treatment programs. Funded by physicians at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.

    My Contributions: Consulting CTO, Backend Architecture & Engineering. Agile Project Management

    Status - Unknown

  • Acorns - Client Product - FinTech

    Mobile application, backend, website, and complex financial flows for the micro-investing application Acorns. At the pre-seed/seed stage the founders of Acorns came to us to turn the concept of “keep the change” from BofA for investing into an actual product. We designed, architected, and released their app and experiences, while building pitch decks and supporting further enhancements and development.

    My Contributions: Consulting CTO, Backend Architecture & Engineering. Integration w/ Financial Institutions & Monetary Flow Design. Financial Modeling. Agile Project Management

    Status - Going Strong @ 2+ Billion USD valuation.

  • Lola Tech Systems - Client Product - EdTech

    Lola Tech Systems is/was a web & mobile application supporting students with executive function disabilities in the classroom and at home. Students using Lola had improved in-class performance, fewer disruptions, and fewer behavioral interventions. Lola helped kids get their work done with less support from 1:1s and otherwise understaffed classrooms.

    My Contributions: CTO, Lead Architect & Engineer, Product Management & Agile Project Management.

    Status - Holding Pattern

  • Athleet - In House - SportsTech

    League Management, Team Management, Sports Analytics, and Social Networking for youth sports. Athleet hoped to bring the data and awareness of professional sports into youth sports with a mission of creating more lifelong sports players where most people stop playing in their youth.

    My Contributions: Lead Architect & Backend Engineering. Product & Agile Project Management.

    Status - Unknown

  • Stitchcount.io - In House - Productivity

    Simple, but powerful time tracking product that supported agency style tracking in ways not available on the market. Stop/Start timers (or manually enter) for any project or client quickly with analysis on interruptions and context switching. Connected people management, project assignments, and billables.

    My Contributions: Product Manager, Architect, Full Stack Engineer, & UX.

    Status - Decommissioned

  • Fanswell - Client Product - Event Management

    Fanswell allowed small to medium sized musicians and bands to connect to their fans for direct bookings while on tour. Musicians could create/upload tour schedules and select dates to fill in with small, paid gigs directly for fans. Musicians were supported with built in marketing support. Fans could place offers for their favorite musicians and manage their bookings. Payment was handled through the application.

    We built it all - from nuts to bolts, launching it, supporting it. Heck, I even pulled out my camera as Photographer (from my days as a Wedding Photographer) for several shows.

    Status - Decommissioned

  • Azimba - In House - DesignTech

    Azimba was a curated image search engine and mood board builder focused on design, fashion and architecture. Building mood boards was a time consuming but necessary task for our partners in design. Azimba greatly simplified the necessary work by combining image search, pinterest-like curation and mood board creation tooling.

    My Contributions: Lead in Architecture, Engineering, Project Management & Product UX.

    Status - Unknown

  • Henosis - In House - Wearable Data

    Henosis had the mission of providing deep performance analytics customized for elite athletes through connected wearables and meta analysis.

    Status - Unknown

  • The Genius Zone - Client - Professional Coaching

    The Genius Zone was focused on helping business executives understand where they were most productive and hire the best people for supportive roles where they would be most happy and most productive.

    MVP Builds and Consulting for Seed Rounds

    Status - Unknown

  • Figling - Client - Social

    Figling was a community for moms and families connecting one another to local events and resources. We built web applications with events & social features along with event curation in LA and SF.

    My Contributions: Consulting CTO - Lead in Architecture & Engineering.

    Status - Decommissioned

  • 30 Days on the Road - In House - Music Tour Travelogue

    Our partner toured with Sasha & Digweed, and then later along with Sigur Ros writing, photographing, and blogging the experiences to share with fans, inviting them to contribute their own photos and share experiences throughout two 30 day tours.

    My Contributions: Backend Architecture & engineering for custom blogging solution & social features

    Status - Complete

  • Dogasaur - Client - Pets & Social

    A complete social network built around pets. Users had all the support and resources to find and care for their pet along with a complete social network, including profiles, photo albums, messaging, and friends.

    My Contributions: Backend Architecture & Engineering, UX, Data Analytics & Site Performance Optimization.

    Status - Decommissioned

  • Jarritos Nation - Client - Social Game

    Jarritos Nation was a time-limited social & crowd sourced content game with integration to Facebook. Users created shared maps of their experiences & took photos with Jarritos along the way. Sharing these photos gave them social credit. Built on top of Google Maps w/ custom layers and icons in the wayback machine pre-2011.

    My Contributions: Backend Architecture & Engineering, Facebook Integration & Google Integration. UX Design.

    Status - Complete

  • Project Img Nation - Client - Crowd Sourced Art

    Combined 114,000 hand drawn tiles into a unique art mural with complete brush stroke replay and video playback across a multi-gigapixel art pieces. Users would hand draw individual tiles as an entry in a competition for prizes, share the activity with friends.

    My Contributions:

    Backend Architecture & Engineering. Realtime drawing replay for tiles and the complete gigapixel art mural, as well as server side time syncronized video processing for the entire experience.

    Status - Complete

  • Bidding Application - Client - Auction Application

    Redacted Bidding Application promised to be the ethical answer to the spate of competitive time based bidding applications of its time. By replacing predatory systems that amounted to gambling, Redacted Bidding Application promised to keep micro-bid auctions safe and fun. We built a multi-room, windowed environment (in the browser… yes, I question this choice) with real-time, bidding mechanics that could be played out in multiple formats.

    My Contributions: Backend Engineering, Game Mechanics & Engineering. Financial Modeling for ethical bidding practices, where all money went towards MSRP or less product purchases.

    Status - Fired the Client when the decided ethics were bad and abusing addictive behaviors were good.

  • Custom Jewelry Vendor - Client - CMS & APIs

    Unnamed Custom Jewelry Vendor had a unique set of technical challenges. Hundreds of styles with 30 or more distinctly configurable components had to be served to and configured by users in real-time. On a shoestring budget, we handled cashing strategy for quadrillions of unique product combinations all with uniquely generated images.

    My Contributions: Backend Architecture, Caching & Image Generation, APIs, DevOps & Product Configurator & CMS.

    Status - Handed Off.

  • Wearable Tech LA - Conference

    At Fabric, we put together the Wearable Tech LA conference in the Pasadena Convention Center with a host of wearable tech product startups, brands, panels and guest speakers with several hundred SoCal innovators in attendance.