I'm Jeff Maki, Founder and Principal Consultant at Public Works Office.
I have a 15+ year history developing and launching new technology in collaboration with experts including professional engineers, urban planners, roboticists and user experience designers.
Like an artist, I think of my superpower as being able to imagine new futures as a "professional amateur": acknowledging but putting aside prior assumptions and always asking questions.
Career accomplishments include re-imagining out-of-home transit advertising as a way to fund customer experience innovations; successfully piloting and then scaling a machine-learning-powered arrival prediction system to serve New York City's 2 million+ daily bus riders; and launching an online experience to share never-before-captured gigapixel+ images from around the world, using technology from NASA's Endurance Mars rover.
When not working, you can find me renovating an 1876 townhome in Philadelphia.
