Engineering the parts of your studio you shouldn't have to think about.
Four core disciplines — control, automation, networking, and data — that take a functional room and make it easier to run, better integrated, and genuinely resilient. Scoped to your workflow, documented, and built to last.
Custom Control Systems
A modern studio is a pile of excellent equipment that mostly refuses to talk to its neighbors. Custom control is the layer that ties it together — so a session starts with one button instead of fifteen, and anyone in the room can drive the gear without reaching for a manual.
I program and deploy professional control platforms — including the highly customizable, dealer-channel systems that aren't sold off the shelf — and build the interface around how you actually work: touch panels, hardware remotes, control surfaces, or a phone. Routing, monitor control, transport, lighting, scenes and macros, all from one place.
The hard part isn't the buttons; it's the logic behind them and the reliability underneath. I design control that fails gracefully, recovers on its own, and is documented well enough to still be maintainable years from now.
Automation & Custom Software
Some problems don't have a product. When the right answer is "write something," I do — clean, documented software and scripts that make your environment smarter without adding another box to babysit.
That might be a one-tap "studio on" routine, an app that preps a session and routes audio, a bridge between two systems that were never meant to integrate, or a quiet background service that watches your gear and warns you before something breaks.
I work across the protocols real rooms use — IP and serial control, MIDI, OSC, GPIO, and vendor APIs — and I build it to be reliable and legible, not a fragile pile of scripts only I can read.
Network Infrastructure
Audio-over-IP, remote sessions, cloud backup, and a dozen connected devices all share one thing: the network. When it's an afterthought, it's the first thing to fail. I treat it as foundation.
I design and deploy segmented, managed networks that keep control traffic, media (Dante, AES67, AVB, NDI), and general internet use in their own lanes — with the switching, VLANs, QoS, and Wi-Fi to back it up. Remote access is done securely, not by poking holes in your firewall.
Structured, labeled, and documented — so adding a device or chasing down an issue is a five-minute job, not a lost afternoon.
Backup, Storage & Data Security
Sessions, stems, libraries, and project archives are the actual value of a studio — and the easiest thing to lose to a failed drive, ransomware, or a mistaken delete. Storage and backup are where I'm least willing to cut corners.
I build centralized, fast shared storage (NAS) with sensible redundancy, plus automated, versioned backups that follow the 3-2-1 rule: multiple copies, on more than one medium, with at least one off-site or in the cloud. Then I test the restores — because a backup you've never restored is just a hope.
For finished work, I set up clean archival so completed projects come off your working storage without disappearing forever.
Home & Small Enterprise
The same thinking applies outside the studio. A home that's genuinely easy to live in, or a small business whose technology quietly works, comes from the same discipline: integrate the essentials, make them reliable, document them, and don't over-build.
For homes, that's whole-home control, media distribution, networking, and automation that everyone in the house can actually use. For small businesses, it's the unglamorous foundation — networking, file storage, backup, and a little automation — done properly the first time.
Not sure which piece you need? Start with a conversation.
Tell me what's frustrating about your current setup — or what you wish it could do — and I'll tell you honestly what's worth doing and what isn't.