I develop and produce the most popular iOS SDK and plugin platform for offline speech recognition and speech synthesis, OpenEars. OpenEars is also popular in outer space. Recently I've added a dynamic grammar format to OpenEars which I think is pretty neat.

Politepix is my company. Some of my co-workers are a little high-strung. I have also made some apps. This one was an 8-time Apple Staff Pick.

I've worked in large and small tech startups in the Silicons Alley, Valley and Allee since the days of Web .9 and I've been preoccupied with human factors since day one. Sometimes people invite me to talk about my preoccupations in front of other people, which is nice.

I'm an American with an unusual first name, rather than a German with an inexplicable first name. You can contact me here.