Global Director of Computational Technologies @ Gensler
// nfo
Gensler Co-CEO Hub
2018-Ongoing (6 years)
// role
global director of computational technologies
global co-leader of AI technologies
// tech
code, creativity, leadership, empathy, diplomacy, persuasion
// key activities
product management
design computation
R&D initiatives
product prototyping
strategy
team building/recruiting
process design
marketing + communications
thought leadership
project engagements
metrics + reporting
strategic partnerships
mentorship
// description
As the director of computational technologies at Gensler, I am responsible for the overall strategy and implementation of computational processes for the entire firm, leading a small but powerful team of innovators, creatives, and product specialists.
A selection of key accomplishments include:
Founding creator of the proprietary NFORM ecosystem of data-driven design products, including gBlox, Gensler’s internal agile conceptual design platform, now in version 3.0 and used on 1000+ projects
Product leadership of an extended toolkit for very large masterplanning at scale, used on projects as large as 200 million SF of built area
Product leadership of our proprietary data-driven Carbon Assessment platform for early design
Co-leader of global AI innovation initiatives, overall strategy, and implementation
Development and deployment of a proprietary generative AI platform on Gensler’s private cloud
Project engagements and computational and A.I. strategy leadership on some of the firm’s largest and most important projects and pursuits
We don’t release a lot of our material publicly, but gBlox was released publicly in 2019 and gBlox and the NFORM ecosystem garnered Gensler a spot on Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Architecture Firm list, as well as numerous other local innovation awards from local and global organizations, such as the Singapore Business Journal.