Summary
Blair Neal is a Creative Technology leader and engineer-artist with 12+ years delivering immersive, experiential installations for clients like Google, Meta, Netflix and Nike. He has led creative tech teams at agencies and consultancies, contributed to award-winning projects (including Cannes Lions), and scaled processes and R&D across permanent and event-based experiences. Equally at home in C++ graphics, AV integration and custom sensors, he blends hands-on technical oversight with strategic ideation to match creative ambition to budget and feasibility. A seasoned technical director and manager, he’s guided cross-disciplinary teams from concept through delivery for more than 80 projects and helped up-level organizations like Deeplocal and Thought Process. Beyond commercial work, Blair is an accomplished new media artist—doing live visuals and music videos—and actively contributes to the arts+tech community through open source, meetups and practical field guides.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.F.A Electronic Arts, M.F.A Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute