Applied Innovation Architect
Bridging creative vision and technical execution across product, experience, and sound.
Chris founded and built AskProxy.ai, an AI-powered platform that replaces static resumes and portfolios with a conversational, living professional profile. The system is trained on a person's experience, expertise, projects, and perspective — enabling it to answer questions and surface relevant work on their behalf around the clock. The product represents Chris's vision for a more human, dynamic way to engage professional opportunity.
For over two decades, Chris has operated Chirp Creative as a multidisciplinary creative and technical consultancy. Work spans immersive installations, experiential environments, custom web platforms, and sound design — always integrating creative direction with hands-on engineering. He has been a trusted partner to founders, brands, and production teams on high-stakes builds, owning vision, architecture, and execution end to end.
Chris joined Splash as its first employee and founding designer, owning all visual and interactive work from day one — including UI/UX and front-end development. As the company grew to 200+ employees and approximately $30M in revenue, he evolved through Principal UX and Product Design Advisor roles, shaping user-facing features, internal tools, and the company's physical offices and IT infrastructure. His 13-year tenure reflects both deep product craft and organizational influence.
Chris spent nearly five years at The Episcopal Church in designer, front-end developer, and multimedia design engineering roles, bridging visual communication and technical production in a mission-driven institutional context. This period deepened his ability to work across design and engineering disciplines in complex organizational environments.
AskProxy is built around training an AI on someone's actual experience, perspective, and voice — so instead of handing someone a resume, you point them to a conversational interface that can answer questions about you in real time, 24/7. Chris built it so the AI isn't just reciting facts but genuinely representing how you'd talk about your work and thinking.
It's the first message in our conversation, so I'm missing a bit of context — built what exactly? If you mean AskProxy.ai, I can definitely speak to that, or if you had something else in mind, just let me know.
AskProxy is built to work for anyone — the idea is that everyone has a story worth telling, whether you're a designer, developer, executive, freelancer, or just someone navigating a career transition. The core insight Chris built it around is that static resumes and portfolios fail most people, not just creatives.
Chirp has worked with a pretty wide range — founders building something new, brands that need a trusted technical and creative partner, and production teams tackling high-stakes builds. The common thread is usually complexity: clients who need someone who can own the whole thing, from vision through execution, not just one piece of it.
One project that stands out is a large-scale sound and spatial installation Chris built through Chirp Creative — the kind of thing where the environment itself becomes the experience, with audio and physical design working together to pull you into a specific feeling or world. For the specifics though, you'd have to ask him directly — he's got a few of these under his belt and he'd be able to walk you through the one that's most relevant to what you're curious about.
For Chris, that's never really felt like a balance — it's more like they're the same muscle. Because he can write the code, design the system, and hold the creative vision all at once, he's never in a position where the technical side surprises or limits him. The idea and the execution inform each other from the start.
The early days were really about building the visual and interactive DNA of the platform from scratch — there was no playbook, so Chris was making foundational decisions about how everything looked and felt. UI, UX, the whole front-end experience — he owned it. It was a true zero-to-one moment, and that kind of work tends to stick with you. Thirteen years later he was still shaping how the product evolved, just at a very different scale.
When Chris joined Splash he was doing everything — UI, UX, brand, front-end code, you name it. As the company grew and specialized teams formed around him, he naturally shifted toward the bigger picture stuff: product strategy, design advisory, shaping direction rather than executing every pixel himself. He also had a hand in things you might not expect, like the physical office spaces and IT infrastructure — which says a lot about how broadly he was trusted there.