To someone who doesn't know me, my resume probably makes me look like someone who can’t even decide what he wants for dinner. And that's fair enough!
While at university, I spent most of my time testing which side of the science-communication divide I really belonged on. Ten months with a university marketing team told me one thing, while a research lab internship told me another.
But when a year as a student consultant for Merck Life Sciences ended with an hour presenting to their managing director, I realised where I stood. I chose the story side, not because research stopped being interesting but because I'm more useful translating it than doing it.
At Stella I write copy, produce and edit video, build visual assets, and maintain clients’ websites. My science studies weren't a detour from that. They're why I'm comfortable with a deep tech startup whose product takes them three pages to explain, and why I'll read the paper before I write the post.
One of the biggest barriers to emerging tech is getting people outside your field to care about it - to fund you, believe in you and ultimately, buy from you – and I'm grateful to be in a pretty unique spot to help solve that.
Because good people, good ideas and good products should get the recognition they've earned, and a lot of them don't. I'd like to be part of why some of that work gets found.
Reading something technical, understanding it properly, and then making it land with someone who's never heard of it.
A roll of 35mm, a gig somewhere small, and whatever's still open afterwards. I shoot film in my spare time: urban life, concerts, landscapes. Worst (best) thing is you only find out in about a week whether it was any good.
