Product Builder
An autodidactic, logic-based human with a passion for shapes, colors, and sounds. Over twenty years of industry experience spanning HTML/CSS/JavaScript, UI/UX design, systems architecture, spatial design, and AV engineering.
Co-founded and built the leading event marketing platform. Founding designer and front-end engineer responsible for all UI/UX. Scaled from 4 people to 200 employees, $30MM revenue. Led R&D and product design until acquisition.
Luxury CPG brand creating indulgent wellness supplements. Handle ops, packaging design, web platform, AI-generated marketing content, and supply chain. Working directly with the founder.
Founded and built the AI-powered portfolio platform. Designed and developed the entire system from necessity while building his own portfolio. A beautiful interface where visitors can have real conversations with an AI that knows your whole story.
Full-stack web application and WhatsApp bot. Product design, UX/UI, prototyping, and development from concept to launch.
Custom web application for sales team at Mobile World Congress. ROI calculators, country rankings, currency conversions. Design and development. Updated for continued use.
Story-first e-commerce platform on Shopify. Re-engineered the system, reducing $200K+ in annual operating costs.
Bellagio-style bidet fountain synchronized to classical music. Built a custom controller with 10 arcade buttons to play the fountains in realtime. Programmed microcontrollers, relays, and solenoid valves for live performance during a 2-day commercial shoot.
Vintage train touring music festivals. Designed 15-speaker immersive sound system, built 8-window HDMI video matrix, produced video and soundtrack.
Boutique expeditions with A-list music performances in extreme locations. Technical direction and FOH sound engineering.
Ran all design and engineering for marketing and comms. Videographer for short-form documentaries and a leader in the early DSLR video transition. Built webcasting systems for legislative conferences, concerts, and global events. Complex workflows, transcoding, multi-language support.
Music has been the constant thread through everything he does. He studied Music Therapy at East Carolina University with a double concentration in bass and percussion—classically trained orchestral percussionist. He did clinical rotations working with 2nd and 3rd graders with behavioral and emotional disorders, designing therapeutic interventions and measuring skill development. On the performance side, he's played Broadway, done studio sessions for major artists, and taught award-winning drum lines. He can play every instrument except woodwinds, and music is still a big part of his life today.
Christopher's technical range is pretty wide — he's a proficient front-end dev (HTML, CSS, JS) with a strong eye for interaction design, comfortable building UI/UX for things that literally don't exist yet. He also works deep into AI tooling, full-stack web apps, and has built custom integrations on platforms like Shopify. On the physical side, he's done microcontroller work, DMX programming, HDMI matrix setups, and complex A/V systems. Real breadth between the screen and the real world.
He was one of the four co-founders and came in as the founding designer and front-end engineer — so the entire product's look, feel, and UI/UX was his work from day one. As Splash scaled to 200 employees and $30M+ in revenue, he stayed close to the product, leading design and front-end while also building out the company's internal systems and physical spaces.
The core challenge was building design tools that had never existed before at that scale — Splash was creating a new category of event marketing software, so there was no playbook to follow. Christopher built UI that let non-designers create polished, on-brand event experiences without needing design skills, which meant the tooling had to be both powerful and genuinely approachable. That tension between flexibility and simplicity drove a lot of the innovation.
He's essentially the whole operation behind the scenes — handles everything from packaging design and brand identity to the website, engineering, and Shopify integrations. He also conceived and produces all the AI-generated video and image content used in their marketing campaigns.
At Céleste, Christopher built AI-generated video and image campaigns for the brand's marketing — including the hero videos on the site. He also built AI-powered operational systems and custom Shopify integrations to keep things running lean, since it's essentially a one-person operation.
He rigged it up with microcontrollers and relays controlling solenoid valves — basically the same mechanics as a conventional musical fountain, just with bidet nozzles replacing the standard jets. Then he built a custom 10-button arcade controller so he could perform it live during the shoot. The whole thing was choreographed to classical music.
Could you clarify which project you're referring to? I want to make sure I give you the right answer — are you asking about the Tushy fountain installation, the José Cuervo train, or something else?