Mark Wheeler
Senior Product Designer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorMark Wheeler is a Senior Product Designer based in Seattle with 13 years of experience crafting experience, interaction and interface across product, experiential and mixed-reality projects. At Microsoft he shapes Dynamics 365 Field Service and Mixed Reality apps while previously designing music creation interfaces for Windows NEXT and the Xbox Avatars editor. He combines a graphic-design-for-interactive background with strong technical chops, regularly concepting, prototyping, pitching and shipping complex products. His career spans agency and studio leadership—leading interactive work for brands like Google, Facebook, Tidal and Xbox—bridging advertising, installations, live visuals and film. An active tinkerer in creative code, he has contributed back-end improvements to the monome norns sound instrument project, enhancing Lua utilities and MIDI handling. That blend of hands-on implementation and high-level vision makes him effective at turning experimental ideas into polished, shippable experiences.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
midi10
midi-instrument10
data-manipulation10
lua10
tabular10
debug9
audio-processing9
debugging9
file-processing8
file-handling8
fileio8
file-access8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
monome/norns
Jun 2018 - Oct 2020
norns is many sound instruments.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 23 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the `norns` project by enhancing the Lua scripting capabilities. Their work included adding new utility functions like `midi_note_to_name` and table saving/loading utilities. They also addressed bugs, such as correcting an error in `util.expexp`. Further improvements included adding functionality for MIDI channel pressure and key pressure, and refactoring existing code, notably moving the `note_to_name` function out of a specific utility file.
midinornsaudiomusicsound
markwheeler/molly_the_poly
Mar 2019 - Nov 2022
Classic polysynth with patch creator for norns.
Contributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 years 9 months
patchcreatornorns
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