I'm Steve Crandall - a principal at Omenti
Contact me for details about consulting. I specialize in the intersection of technology and society combining my background in pure and applied physics with how people use technology. I'm not an engineer, but rather bring the tools and perspective of the natural sciences and a bit of the social sciences to a project. If you are finding you need to go a bit beyond technology while still keeping a solid grounding, we should probably talk.
In the natural sciences one learns to work comfortably and productively in a state of uncertainty and confusion - in fact to relish those conditions. You certainly find answers, but the real goal is often to learn something deeper and discover the deeper questions. This approach has proven to be more broadly applicable than I imagined.
Sometimes you see what everyone else has seen and think what no one else has thought...
Outside of physics I have worked on a wide range of projects including gps-denied navigation, geolocation social media infrastructure and applications, digital music (soup to nuts), social testing and design, electric vehicles, human-electric hybrid vehicles, manufacturing techniques, transportation and energy infrastructures, assistive design, scenario planning, radio propagation, intellectual property analysis and vetting, distributed intellectual property, science education, computer assisted and remote music education, energy and environmental analysis and audits, made-to-measure design, "playful" design, sports science, Internet/intranets of things, sensors, and so on...
Rather than further categorize what I do, it probably makes more sense to say I'm interested in connecting dots and working at the intersection of fields that may be poorly defined. I'm good at being an impedance match to connect people with widely different backgrounds and skill sets. Some say I'm a good story-teller.
The first blog post with a brief description appears here.
Omenti is derivative of J.R.R. Tolkein's elven language Quenya and is a place where two paths meet and people come together to exchange ideas.
Text created by ChatGPT and other Large Language Models is spreading rapidly across the Internet. It's well-written, artificial, frequently inaccurate. If you find a mistake here, rest assured it was made by a real human being. This is an AI Free Zone!
photo courtesy of Om