Intel
Built the developer and partner ecosystem around Intel's maker and edge silicon — Joule, Edison and Curie — from partner recruitment through carrier boards and robotics platforms.
Numbers
- 80+
- Technical articles produced
- 35+
- Platform extensions shipped
- 85+
- Workshops and hackathons runGalileo, Edison and Mashery API
- 10,000+
- Developers reached worldwide
Intel's maker and edge silicon arrived faster than the ecosystem around it could form. My job was the ecosystem: who builds on this, what do they need before they can, and what has to exist for them to get from an unboxing to something running.
What I built
Intel Joule robotics platform with Portland State University2016
University robotics program built on Joule, taking the module from a spec sheet to a working teaching and research platform.
Carrier board rollout2016
Worked with external hardware vendors to produce the prototyping carrier boards the Joule ecosystem needed, when the internal roadmap was aimed at production boards instead.
Partner curation and platform extensions
Recruited and managed the long list of hardware and software partners building extensions on top of the platforms, and ran the technical customer interviews that fed back into product.
Activations
Intel Joule launch at IDF
Go-to-market activation for the Intel Joule platform at Intel Developer Forum — the developer community foundation underneath a major silicon launch.
Platforms
OpenAPS on Intel Edison
The open-source artificial pancreas community built their closed-loop insulin system on Edison and the Explorer Board — the clearest case I have seen of a platform finding a use nobody at the company had planned for.
Joule robotics platform with Portland State University
University robotics platform built on Joule, turning a compute module into something a research and teaching program could actually run on.
Intel Joule
Intel's highest-performance maker module, aimed at robotics, drones and machine vision. I built the global launch ecosystem around it — the partner network, the platform lineup it shipped with, and the carrier boards it needed and did not have.
Intel Curie
Button-sized module with onboard motion sensing and pattern matching, aimed at wearables — and the one where the most interesting hardware around it came from designers rather than engineers.
Intel Edison
Postage-stamp compute module for connected devices, and the one whose third-party carrier boards mattered more than anything Intel shipped around it.