About me ​​​​​​​ 

I'm originally a Texan, but moved to New York City after an eye-opening year of graduate school in Paris, France. Responding to the huge demand for tech workers, I became a desktop analyst and system administrator in advertising and publishing firms. I left New York City in 2004 and started a media company in Singapore called Ceylon Road Pte Ltd, named after the street I lived on in the Katong district. From 2008 to 2016 I worked as an expeditionary videographer for Pacific Ethnography and later at IPSOS Ethnography Center of Excellence (ECE). I also worked in many other types of run and gun videography contexts, including medical missions, news reporting, and ultra-marathons.

In the course of 25 expeditions in the Asia Pacific region I learned to combine video ethnography with generative research processes in the fieldwork context and how to blend my workflow seamlessly with teams of anthropologists.

I shared this experience at the 2019 Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting by presenting "Perception and Expectation: how video technology changes video ethnography in corporate research in Asia."

I recently worked for ZURB writing user surveys and researching job titles across industries. I still support research projects for IPSOS ECE, remotely helping respondents create video journals, and editing them into compelling stories. Most recently I extracted insights from interviews from five countries for a Microsoft study centered on the problems and benefits consumers experience when using mobile apps.