The Journey
From July 6, 1982 to June 15, 2026
Right Now
You. Reading this. The journey continues, in real time.
Right Now
Columbus on a Monday pre-standup morning, scrolling someone else's career arc. Bold. Compelling. Slightly suspicious. Pretending this desktop tab is work-adjacent. I see you.
Product & Platforms Era
From IRL experiences to AI-native software. After a decade owning intensely offline, experience-heavy companies that used the web primarily as a publishing and marketing layer, I transitioned into building products where the software itself is the business. That shift forced me to move beyond traditional web design into true software thinking: systems, data models, and long-lived products instead of campaigns. Today my work lives at the intersection of product, AI, and interfaces – designing software that can be used by humans directly and by AI agents as programmatic surfaces, not just as websites.
Founder - Pictor.pro
After being sick of told over and over again by Photobooth Software companies that we didn't need features that our clients were asking for, we set off on the quest to build our own Photobooth software, and we're still doing it today.
Camera & Culture
Building Nicky Digital into a defining lens on NYC nightlife, music, and fashion. Concerts, parties, and the city after dark.
Digital Marketing Certificaton — General Assembly
Continuing education in marketing as a creative entrepreneur.
Founded OutSnapped.com
Photo booth experiences company built on shutter-to-share polish — translating real-world events into shareable social media moments. Scales from intimate gatherings to brand activations and music festivals.
Director of Photography — Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival
Led the photo team capturing the festival across multiple Brooklyn venues.
Director of Photography - Together Music Festival
Together Boston was an annual festival in Massachusetts dedicated to music, art, and technology that ran from 2010 to 2019. The week-long event featured a mix of nighttime musical performances at various venues across Boston and Cambridge, alongside daytime panels, technology demonstrations, and art exhibitions.
Magazines
Cutting teeth on print and online editorial design across NYC publishing — Wenner, Radar, Time Inc., TV Guide.
Digital Production Lead (Web Design & Development) - RadarOnline.com
Served as RadarOnline's one-person digital ops lead and hybrid Web Art Director/Developer —pioneering the evolution from static promo sites to interactive, multi-format platforms (long-form, short-form, video). Owned end-to-end production: multiple redesigns, hand-coded HTML/CSS (pre-CMS), WordPress migration, commissioning illustrators/photographers, asset creation/licensing, content formatting, and live deployments in a high-velocity gossip environment.
Art Director — TV Guide
Reimagined the publication design as TV Guide moved from its original size to tabloid format.
Founded NickyDigital.com
NYC nightlife photography blog. Documenting concerts, parties, fashion, and music under the Nicky Digital alias — chronicling the city that never sleeps.
Designer — Time Inc. Custom Publishing
Design across multiple custom print magazine projects.
Art Director — Radar Magazine
Print art direction during the magazine’s pre-online era.
Editorial Designer — Wenner Media
First full-time gig out of college. Editorial design across Wenner properties including Us Weekly, Rolling Stone and Men's Journal.
Foundations
Westchester roots, public school, and the slow climb into design and visual storytelling.
B.A., New Media — Emerson College
Dual major Photography and New Media with a focus on non-linear animation, graphic design, user experience. President of Developed images photography club and publication, Creative Director for on campus arts and culture magazine, Gauge magazine, and active in EmComm marketing club (yes, that's a real club) activities.
Somers K-12 (Kindergarten, Primary, Middle, and High) Schools
High school in Westchester County, NY.
Montessori Nursery School
Engaged in a self-directed project making matching paper watches with my best friend, achieving perfect time synchronization largely because the watches were made of paper and did absolutely nothing. Received a rigorous early education in independence, self-directed learning, and respect for the prepared environment.
Born
My parents were thrilled, but not because a total lunar eclipse — billed as one of the century’s most spectacular — was visible across much of the Western Hemisphere. It also wasn’t because “Don’t You Want Me” by The Human League (a British band) topped the charts in the US while “Fame” by Irene Cara (an American artist) did the same in the UK. The cosmic irony was completely lost on them; they were just excited that I lit up their sky — unlike the sun, which was totally eclipsed by the moon.
The journey continues...