JAMES HOWE OANTA

a designer ✱ developer ✱ builder, based in Cluj-Napoca, Transilvania  → Currently working on OMNI, and helping various startups with design and engineering.

I studied art from when I was little. My father is a painter and sculpter. My uncle is a painter and a sculpter. My brother a musician turned technologist, so I naturally fell in line next and became an artist, then studied architecture and then ultimately landed in the tech world. Enjoyed a few years of the mobile platform, switched back to arts by discovering UI/UX and then combining that with engineering - I believe this is the next frontier and the new world.

I have two kids and one wife - sometimes it feels like multiple (joking).
I like coffee and coke and I think if I'm honest I like too much watches - thats'why I use instagram.

I'm a multidisciplinary person and pretty much self thought.

I enjoy building new products, talking about startups and how will the world look and work like in the future - sometimes too much.

WHAT I DON'T LIKE:

- having my picture taken
- too many meetings
- too much form and formality where there is no requirement
- people who are not really passionate about what they do
- sleeping