Greetings you beautiful people!

I'm Chris Orcutt and you've found my small home on the Internet. I created this portfolio of projects to give you a better understanding of who I am. Many people would say that I’m kind of all over the place, and they would be right. I like to keep things interesting and I have a track record to prove it:

• I have an intensely creative spirit and have been known to spontaneously break out in song and dance. I’ve put my photoshop skills to the test designing and launching an independent clothing label, have been the creative director/photographer/model/editor on multiple photo and video shoots, and have composed and performed original songs to 100’s of people.

• I am an empathetic communicator, teacher, and student. I have been the community manager of an extraordinarily diverse learning community in San Francisco, taught both high school students and career changing adults in a variety of subjects ranging from English to chemistry to application development, and have wrote a book (well, an online tutorial) on building iOS applications.

• I have the analytical skills of a UCLA trained computer scientist and can hold my own against engineers. I’ve built autonomous robots, remote controlled quad-copters, and have been involved in designing, developing, and releasing 13 apps to the Apple App Store.

I choose to live differently, to be inspired, to be interested and interesting. Here's what I've worked on in the past. If you like what you see, give me a shout at orcutt.chris@gmail.com.

xActivist

• xActivist | Store
  xActivist is an independent clothing label that creates culturally aware & socially relevant clothing. The goal is to create simple but meaningful messages that inspire change on ethically sourced clothing that people are proud to wear.

Creative

• Check | Mockups
  Check is a lightweight task manager that was designed to keep teams accountable. I designed the mockups using Sketch3 and went through multiple iterations of user testing.

• Buttercups | Photoshoot | Video Ad
  Buttercups was an ecommerce project that private labeled pushup bras. The photos and videos were used as advertising creative on Facebook. I was responsible for the entire process from hiring models, to creating the scene, to capturing the photo/video, to post production.

• Melona | Photoshoot | Video Ad
  Similar to Buttercups, Melona was a private label ecommerce project. I was responsible for the entire creative process.

• Chris Orcutt | Girlfriend | Don't Know What's Happening | Know You Gotta Man | Live @ SummerFest
  I have been writing and playing original acoustic music for the last 10 years.

Writing

• Make School Notes | Tutorial
  An online tutorial designed to teach the basics of iOS application development.

• E = MC^2
  An autobiographical piece about my journey through the education system.

Apps

• UCLALibrary | full info | source | video demo
  An iOS utility app created to provide real-time operating hours, rental laptop availability, and navigation to all 11 of UCLA's libraries.

• eWeek | full info | source | video demo
  An iOS utility app built for UCLA's annual Engineering Week event. It was released to the App Store in Spring, 2015.

• Biplanes | full info | source | video demo
  An iOS game about planes designed for kids. It was released to the App Store in Summer, 2014.

Robots

• Medusa | full info | video demo
  An autonomous maze navigating robot built on the Arduino platform that won 2nd place at the UCLA Open Project Space Robotics Race.

• Picam | full info | video demo
  A camera system built on the Raspberry Pi platform that allows a user to control where a camera is pointing via a mobile phone.

• Dumbo | full info | flight video
  A remote-controlled quad copter that was built from off the shelf parts in preparation (to learn how a quad copter flies and the components that go into a quad copter) for building an autonomous drone controllable through a mobile interface.