Projects & Experience

Creative Technologist building at the intersection of generative AI, 3D production, and full-stack development.

Professional Experience

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Synthemo Creative Current

Art Director & Developer  ·  2024–Present

  • Founded creative studio specializing in generative AI workflows for brand content.
  • Produces cinematic brand films and marketing assets using custom ML pipelines: Flux, Veo, NanoBanana, ComfyUI, and LLM integrations.
  • Focus on rapid prototyping and premium motion delivery.
California College of the Arts Current

Adjunct Faculty, MFA Design  ·  2015–Present

  • Teach Motion Studio and MFA exhibition courses.
  • Developed curriculum in generative AI for design and motion.
XYZ Studios Current

Lighting Designer  ·  2015–Present

  • Design and produce high-end marketing imagery for Apple and Google.
  • Tools: Maya, Nuke, Photoshop.

Logitech

Staff Lead Visual Designer  ·  2019–2023

  • Led visual design across 10+ product launches for the Mobility team, coordinating deliverables across engineering, industrial design, and product management.
  • 3D rendering and 2D design visualization across the Mobility product line.
  • Created photorealistic imagery for Logitech website, in-store POS, packaging, and partner sites.
  • Performed CAD data conversion into DCC-renderable assets.

Schawk

Staff 3D Technical Director  ·  2017–2018

  • Digital asset production for Apple product refresh and launch events.
  • High-resolution, photorealistic imagery for product launches and in-store POS.

Nvidia

Staff 3D Technical Director  ·  2014–2017

  • Researched and developed offline and real-time GPU rendering pipelines.
  • Performed product testing for Nvidia's in-house progressive and programmable renderer.
  • Created workflows for CAD data conversion into DCC-renderable assets.

Education

MFA in Design Technology

San Francisco Art Institute  ·  Interactive design, digital fabrication, and immersive technologies

Featured Web Development Projects

Northlineby Synthemo Early access

Safe personas at scale.
Presence plus integrity.

Real-time voice and avatar AI personas that hold a genuine character (voice, temperament, limits) and tell you plainly what they are when you ask. Five are designed from behavioral patterns. One is a digital twin of Philip.

  1. Listening

    Deepgram Flux

  2. Thinking

    Claude Sonnet 5

  3. Responding

    ElevenLabs + LemonSlice

Meet the personas Watch the demo

Ask it what it is

5 OP · 1 DT

PhilipDT01

Digital twin, built from a real person.

What are you?

Built from Philip — I'm what he'd sound like if you sat down with him. Not the real one, just the pattern. What're you here for?

Synthemo Creative

Synthemo Creative

Brand Film / GenAI

What: Creative studio producing cinematic brand content with generative AI pipelines.

Why: Brands need premium motion content at the speed and flexibility only AI workflows can deliver.

FluxVeoComfyUI
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Fluxion

Fluxion

AI Tool

What: Node-based image generation platform giving artists direct control over diffusion workflows.

Why: Existing diffusion tools hid the pipeline — Fluxion exposes it as a modular, artist-friendly node graph.

Next.jsSupabaseReplicate
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Elysium System

Elysium System

AI Game Engine

What: AI-driven narrative game with LLM-powered story generation and avatar-based worldbuilding.

Why: Exploring how LLMs can generate coherent, branching narrative arcs with persistent character memory.

Python / FastAPIOpenAILangChain
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Hopeflo

Hopeflo

Civic Tech

What: Civic platform combining AI-curated positive news with tools for community-driven action.

Why: Countering doom-scroll fatigue by surfacing hopeful narratives and local opportunities to engage.

Next.jsSupabaseAgentic AI
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NovelSpace

NovelSpace.tech

Creative Platform

What: Creative platform for AI-enhanced story-worlds and experimental digital media.

Why: Exploring new formats that fuse code, story, and visual design into living, evolving worlds.

Next.jsCloudinaryImage Generation
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