Nicole Messier
Partner at Freelance
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicole Messier is a multidisciplinary creative technologist and designer with 12 years of experience building interactive installations, soft-electronics, and product-driven experiences from studio to museum. As co-founder and Partner at Craftwork and a freelance Lead Creative Technologist, she blends engineering rigor (M.S. in Mechanical/Aerospace engineering and an MFA in Design & Technology) with hands-on fabrication, eTextiles, and rapid prototyping to turn storytelling and material research into public-facing work. She has led teams delivering large-scale museum systems, clients like Uber and Facebook, and a product line that raised funding and retail traction, demonstrating both technical leadership and product-market discipline. A seasoned educator, she teaches physical computing and creative coding at Tisch and Parsons, translating complex electronics into accessible curricula and youth programs. An active contributor to creative coding—having modified examples and docs in the widely used openFrameworks toolkit—she pairs C++ graphics/math chops with pragmatic documentation and mentoring. Her uncommon blend of aerospace-grade measurement experience and knitware/electronics craft enables durable, maintainable interactive systems that bridge art, design, and engineering.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Summa cum laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Summa cum laude at The George Washington UniversityMaster of Fine Arts (MFA), Design and Technology, Summa cum laude, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Design and Technology, Summa cum laude at Parsons School of Design
Github Skills (12)
c-language10
coding10
cprogramming-language10
opengl10
graphic10
math9
mathematics9
360-video8
opencv7
computer-vision5
ios4
android4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openframeworks/openFrameworks
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 2 days
Contributions summary:Nicole contributed to multiple examples within the openFrameworks framework, modifying C++ code in various examples, including color, image saving, trigonometry, periodic signals, noise generation, and rectangle alignment. Their work involved adjusting existing code, adding functionality, and modifying files. The changes indicate involvement in both graphics-related aspects and mathematical concepts within the creative coding context of the repository. The user also made changes to the readme files, which also suggest a role that includes some documentation work.
raspberry-picppemscriptenosxwindows
nicoleyimessier/google_spreadsheet_cms
Oct 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
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