About 6 months ago Gabe asked if I wanted to give a talk at the Adventure Design Group. I was honored, humbled, and a little reluctant, because I didn't exactly know what I had to give this audience. Eventually I settled on the guts of a topic. I had a ton of fun preparing for and giving this talk, and I think I'd like to give it again a few more times; there's so much I left out. If you're interested in doing big creative things...I've got some stuff to say. If you watch it let me know what you think. I watched it, it's a bit rougher than I felt like it was at the time.
Adventure Design Group presents Issac Kelly from Adventure Design Group on Vimeo.
10th May 2016
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I'm Issac. I live in Oakland. I make things for fun and money. I use electronics and computers and software. I manage teams and projects top to bottom. I've worked as a consultant, software engineer, hardware designer, artist, technology director and team lead. I do occasional fabrication in wood and plastic and metal. I run a boutique interactive agency with my brother Kasey and a roving cast of experts at Kelly Creative Tech. I was the Director of Technology for Nonchalance during the The Latitude Society project. I was the Lead Web Developer and then Technical Marketing Engineer at Nebula, which made an OpenStack Appliance. I've been building things on the web and in person since leaving Ohio State University's Electrical and Computer engineering program in 2007. Lots of other really dorky things happened to me before that, like dropping out of high school to go to university, getting an Eagle Scout award, and getting 6th in a state-wide algebra competition. I have an affinity for hopscotch.