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Bolinas Frank

Creative Innovation by Layering on a Causal Structure

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About Me

I'm a multidisciplinary designer and developer with decades of experience bringing digital products to life—from early-stage startups to major tech companies like Microsoft. With a foundation in fine arts and a career spanning front-end engineering, UX design, and creative direction, I bridge the gap between code and visual storytelling. Whether leading product design for AIOps initiatives or prototyping blockchain investment platforms, I bring curiosity, craft, and strategic thinking to every project. I’ve built tools for artists, ads for social media, games for consoles, and immersive web experiences while keeping a focus on usability, clarity, and impact.

I started writing software in 6th grade on a Kaypro-2, captivated by the way logic and creativity could converge on a green monochrome screen. That early fascination sparked a lifelong path through technology, spanning decades in industries as varied as gaming, advertising, and platform development. Along the way, I also pursued formal training in Fine Art with a focus on Studio Painting—an experience that deepened my understanding of visual composition, narrative, and the emotional resonance of design. This blend of technical fluency and artistic insight continues to shape how I approach every project, whether I’m prototyping an app, building a digital experience, or illustrating a book.



Expertise :
AIOps Conference Workshop Sites The following are the conference workshop sites I've designed and developed. My work has:
- given identities for Microsoft's Cloud Intelligence, AIoT, and AIOps presence.
- resulted in more registrations for conferences and participation in workshops for those conferences.
- shown that my technical and art skills can create something useful and at the same time, meaningful.
- Designed the look for the Cloud Intelligence / AIOps Workshop including the website, hero, and collateral including the physical print brochure and poster.
- Building and maintaining site architecture, images, navigation, code (JavaScript, HTML, CSS), and providing analytics reports and automatic site monitoring.







AIOps Design Guide

Gary Trust

"If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text."

Via Myspace

Andy Smith

"All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words"

Via Twitter
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Abstract Tokenization
Identity + Design Guide Democratizing commercial real estate ownership through blockchain technology creating liquidity with the use of my technical and creative skills in furthering the investment in commercial real estate development projects being more accessible to the public.
  • - Providing a solution for a legacy inherently encumbered by a massive amount of documentation and tedious illiquid servicing.
  • - Iterating on the platform with objective feedback from close relationships with investors and commercial real estate sponsors.
  • - Designing an easy to use UI integrating Prime Trust (financial institution that provides API-driven open banking) which includes
    • -- Incoming and outgoing ACH, wire, check, credit/debit cards, SWIFT, Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins
    • -- instant settlement, anti-fraud, multifactor, PCI-compliant.
    • -- KYC, AML, Bad Actor checks, transaction monitoring, domestic & global for individuals, institutions and entities.

Gary Trust

"If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text."

Via Myspace

Andy Smith

"All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words"

Via Twitter
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More Experience You can view decades of my experience on LinkedIn

Gary Trust

"If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text."

Via Myspace
Used vue.js to consume a JSON API, with links to profiles.
Find an artist with expert 3D skills at stratuscore.com made with vue.js
3 hour free trials of software on StratusCore’s Virtual Workstation landing page and registration created with vue.js
Helped create a fine art digital certification platform for verisart.com using React, Redux, and Go to complete a beta launch.
Made the Xbox Community Support Platform more engaging and useful by working closely with graphic designers, backend developers, and the project owner.
Designed Portelo UI including project list, project grid, and project detail views.
Designed and developed HTML5/CSS3/Javascript interactive ads for Aquent.

Andy Smith

"All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words"

Via Twitter
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Book Collabs The following is a collection of books I have illustrated.
Testimonials

Gary Trust

"If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text."

Via Myspace

John De Goes

"Few devs know anything about graphics design, and few graphics designers know anything about development; Bo manages to bridge both worlds"

Via LinkedIn

Guy Klages

"Bo was the most innovative and creative software engineer"

Via LinkedIn

Phoebe Bosche of the Raven Chronicles

"an incredible book"

Check out Rain Violent

Gabelle

"Nice!"

Via Instagram

Andy Smith

"All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words"

Via Twitter
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