About
Hi, I'm Robin (thus ).
This site is about stuff I've explored and learned about starting from when I took a year off work to sort some things out.
GRUMPYCORP STUDIOS is the name of my movie studio / consulting company / record label / construction outfit, whatever I need it to be at any given time.
It actually is a real company at this point: Grumpy Company Studios LLC d/b/a Grumpycorp Studios! I wasn't allowed to call it "Grumpycorp Studios LLC" off the bat because you cannot have "corp" in the name of an LLC so here we are with this registered and licensed "doing business as" life hack.
If you want my help on anything - a project, a problem, an opportunity - don't hesitate to ask.
Ambitions
- In progress
- Needlessly geek out with current technology
- Automate my house's heating system into IoT nirvana
- Cook all the things (working on it)
- Needlessly geek out with current technology
- On ice
- Become
a credibleany kind of film editorMake ashort film (proof of concept)Make the soundtrack for said short film- Help friends make and edit films → working on it right now!
- Become
- Completed
Complete a major labor-of-love projectdoneDesign and build awriter's cottagein the back yard
Figure out whether food could be a livelihoodbeen there, done it, doesn't pay
Lessons learned
- Just do it right the first time is the constant refrain from the cottage project, my primary occupation over the last eight months.
- Food is wonderful but don't make it a livelihood unless you enjoy it so much that you don't mind 60+ hour work weeks for minimum wage pay. Duh.
Resume
- As a software engineer and engineering manager: see LinkedIn
- As a film maker: see IMDB
- As a stage and lighting designer: some 30+ productions, including at:
- ACT Theatre (Seattle)
- McCarter Theater (Princeton, NJ)
- Microsoft Theater Troupe (Redmond, WA)
- Theatre Intime (Princeton, NJ).