The short version
Tell me who you are and I'll skip the parts you don't care about.
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Selected work
John is as A-player as it gets. Where 99% of people will just do the task they were asked to do, John goes above and beyond and always delivers more than requested.
How I work
Five habits that show up in every project above.
Nothing ships with known errors. Once it is solid and live, I refine it against how customers actually behave, not against a version of perfect we imagined in staging.
Heatmaps, scroll maps and the analytics that already exist come before opinions, mine included. When the numbers are thin I say so, and I A/B test before I commit a storefront to a change.
If a task happens twice, it becomes a module, an internal app or a scheduled job. Nobody on my team should spend a Tuesday doing something a script does better.
Every market I have launched into wanted something different from the last one. A market you have not lived in will not explain itself through analytics, so I research it properly and talk to the people who actually shop there.
Most of the job is choosing: which platform, which agency, which feature waits a quarter. I would rather kill an idea in a meeting than after a developer has spent a month on it, and I explain why in plain language so the team can push back.
The stack wall
Certified, for what it's worth
TestDome, all gold. click any stamp to verify.
Audio lab
Plugins I felt like building. VST3 and AU, Mac and Windows, written in JUCE.
EspañaVerb
Reverb on an 8-line feedback delay network. The UI is a watercolour of España Boulevard that rains, then floods, as the mix comes up. Knobs in Tagalog: Baha, Ulan, Lawak, Estero, Labo, Kalsada, Alon, Trapik, Putik.
Sola Bass Fuzz
BigBMuff style fuzz into an SVT style bass preamp with presence control and a switchable cab sim, filter model or IR. One pedal, the whole bass rig.
Audio & video work
From the years before eCommerce. Sessions, mixes, podcasts, edits.
Venture Out LOUD
A video podcast for LOUD Capital. The whole post pipeline on this one: edited the video, mixed and mastered the audio, and made the graphics package including the motion graphics and the intro OBB.
Reese Lansangan × Levi's
A brand collaboration with the musician Reese Lansangan. I was on site for the session: set up the equipment, recorded it, then mixed and mastered the result.
The UST Singers, 28th anniversary
Anniversary concert for the UST Singers at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Pasay. I mixed it live for the auditorium, recorded the performance, and handled post: mix and master.
Bass for Yuzon
Not an engineering credit, this one. I played bass.
Kwentong Kalyehero
A narrative podcast written and voiced by Mark Raywin Tome. I produced it, composed the music, recorded the foley, then mixed and mastered the episodes. The stories and the voice are his; every other sound in them is something I made or captured.
Payaman Talks
A podcast with Team Payaman, the Filipino content creator collective founded by Cong TV. I was on site for the recording, then edited, mixed and mastered the whole thing.
pre-production meeting
The Last 24 Hours
Written, produced and voiced by Jet T. Benson. I recorded it, then mixed and mastered the episodes.
UST Christmas Concert 2019
Live mixing engineer for the concert.
Purples n' Oranges
OPM out of UST, started 2017 as friends jamming for fun, writing our own songs by late 2018. Chill pop, R&B, funk and soul. Seven of us. I play lead guitar.