Meet the Team: Michael McManus

Michael grew up in and around the west coast and the midwest and was lucky enough to have spent most of that time in beautiful places like Northern California and Hawaii. He moved to Portland in 2005 to attend Reed College, where he received his undergraduate degree in anthropology, though a large portion of his time was spent studying computer science and studio art. Michael worked with internet technologies for several years before joining Cast Iron Coding. After leaving his first job as a developer's assistant for broadcast television equipment manufacturer Grass Valley, he worked independently on web sites for arts organizations, in addition to developing code for his personal artistic projects and ventures. 

Michael's background includes training and experience in many different media production environments. For many years he was actively involved in several different public and community radio programs. This interest carried him all the way from fiddling with knobs on a dusty radio control console tucked away in an auditorium closet at his high school on the Monterey peninsula, to larger venues across the country. He's worked for Chicago Public Radio's cultural affairs department, and eventually found himself working on the nationally-syndicated NPR program "Radio Lab," produced out of New York City's WNYC. While in New York he also worked as an organizer for special events at the Museum of Modern Art's P.S.1, one of the oldest and largest non-profit contemporary art institutions in the country. As a musician and artist, Michael's work has been performed and exhibited in New York, L.A., San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. Through all this, he's gained an ability to work with a wide range of media, and can work with almost any team of collaborators to make sure that any project he's involved with gets carried out with the highest degree of precision and organization. 

Recently, when he's not actively experimenting with the newest browser technologies and software design patterns, Michael has been trying his hand at learning the "Sweet Science," a.k.a. boxing. Yet, ever a nerd, you might be just as likely to find him buried in a stack of books researching the development of audio technologies throughout cinematic history.