Creative Technologist & Designer · Houston, TX

Andy Mason

I work where craft meets engineering — prototyping and shipping experiences people feel, and making the technology invisible so the moment lands.

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Selected work

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About

I'm a creative technologist and designer in Houston. For two decades I've lived at the seam between craft and engineering — as an Integrated Troubleshooting Engineer at Apple HQ, a Cooper Hewitt–exhibited illustrator, a front-of-house audio engineer for large live events, and the person who quietly runs the technology for a 67-person design studio.

The thread through all of it is making complicated things feel simple. Whether it's a practical effect that reacts to a passerby, a tool that lets one person run a whole studio, or a mix that disappears so the audience just feels the night — I care about the moment the technology gets out of the way.

These days I design and direct the build, using AI as the tool that lets one person ship what used to take a team. Less hand-coding, more deciding what should exist and shaping it until it's right.

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Experience

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Capabilities

Creative Technology

  • Prototyping
  • Practical effects
  • Hardware & electronics
  • AI-directed development
  • Web apps & internal tools

Design

  • Illustration
  • Identity & symbols
  • Iconography
  • Layout & type

Apple & Endpoint

  • ACMT certified
  • MDM (Iru / Kandji)
  • Fleet management
  • Deployment

Networking & AV

  • UniFi enterprise networks
  • AV systems
  • Conference / Zoom Rooms

Live Production

  • Front-of-house mixing
  • System design
  • Multi-day events

Recognition

  • Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
  • UniFi Enterprise (×3)
  • A.A.S. Multimedia Design, HCC
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Contact

Open to creative technologist and design work — and to a good conversation.