I’m the Technical Facilities Manager for NYU Tisch’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music (CDI), and an independent Electrical Engineering Consultant.

At CDI, I manage facilities featuring large-format analog consoles, Studer 24-track 2” tape machines, Avid HDX systems, and 22-speaker immersive environments (including Dolby Atmos). I also develop custom web applications for internal use and oversee an equipment room stocked with a massive variety of microphones and musical instruments.

My independent consultancy focuses on custom hardware and software creations, bridging the gap between design and functional prototypes.

Selected Projects

• CDI Facilities Booking Application: Sole developer of a custom, full-stack resource management system used by the Clive Davis Institute for over seven years. Built with a React frontend and a Node.js/Express backend using MySQL, the entire codebase is written in TypeScript to ensure long-term maintainability and type safety.
• EMT 250 Reverse Engineering & Repair: For my undergraduate capstone, I reverse-engineered the world’s first digital reverberation processor. I developed a custom debugging interface to step through the code of its internal 1970s minicomputer, which facilitated the successful repair of four of these rare units.
• NYU Nanolab (Graduate Research): I designed and assembled custom PCBs and enclosure integrations for specialized biosensor ICs. As part of this work, I developed a custom GUI for high-precision control and data acquisition via National Instruments (NI) hardware.
• SkiCad (Embedded Systems): Developed a prototype for a medical skincare device, focusing on sensor integration and embedded hardware design.

Background & Experience

• LiDAR Hardware (Voyant Photonics): Collaborated with the EE team on designing, testing, and reworking PCBs at their NYC headquarters.

• Technical Facilities Manager and Technician at CDI, maintaining high-end studio equipment and supporting student sessions.

• Technician for Main Drag Music in Brooklyn and Lark Street Music in New Jersey, repairing guitar effects, guitar electronics, power amplifiers, keyboards, and synthesizers.

• Musical instrument retail sales across the NYC area (Main Drag Music, Lark Street Music, Guitar Center, Manny’s Music) and Music Central in San Diego.

• Musician: guitar teacher in San Diego; moved to NYC to play in rock bands; recorded and toured with Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson; record with my wife, composer Mandy Hoffman.

I hold a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from New York University and am currently pursing my M.S. in Electrical Engineering at NYU.