Summary
Chad Weinard is an independent museum technologist and experience strategist with over a decade of practice designing digital programs and visitor-focused systems for museums and cultural organizations. He has led digital initiatives at institutions including Williams College Museum of Art and the North Carolina Museum of Art, and now consults through his firm Chad Weinard LLC to help museums translate curatorial goals into creative, tech-enabled experiences. Trained in the arts with graduate work at NYU Institute of Fine Arts and hands-on formation at NYU ITP, he blends scholarship, design sensibility, and practical product thinking. Known for generating innovative, system-level ideas rather than one-off features, he pairs deep museum domain knowledge with a maker’s fluency in new media. Based in Durham, NC, he brings a long track record of building sustainable digital programs and nurturing cross-disciplinary partnerships.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MA, PhD (ABD), MA, PhD (ABD) at NYU Institute of Fine Arts
BA, BA at Duke University
Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), NYU