Hi! I’m Charlene.

My career is in engineering; my craft is in creative expression. I love it whenever I’m able to merge these two together.

I’m a SoCal-based maker passionate about the intersection of engineering, storytelling, and interactive experiences.

By day, my professional interests are in systems and industrial engineering. That is:

enabling efficient, human-centered processes that integrate people, hardware, software and information into healthy production workflows.

By night, I tinker constantly(!) — building props, prototyping with robotics and software, lighting up show displays, and pursuing crafts for the sake of making cool stuff. (This also provides a healthy side-effect of keeping my hardware and software dev skills up and exposing myself to new tech.)

When I’m not building things, you’ll probably find me training for my next Ironman triathlon, listening to Disney soundtracks, or curled up with a good book.