Nicholas “Nico” Newhouse
Popcorn Eating Unicorn
I make complicated things less stupid.
Drones · Emergency Response · Media · AI · Automation · Probably another side project
Professional problem child.
Popcorn Eating Unicorn
I make complicated things less stupid.
Drones · Emergency Response · Media · AI · Automation · Probably another side project
Professional problem child.
Percentages have absolutely no scientific basis whatsoever.
I was never particularly good at school.
More accurately, I was never particularly good at learning in the way school expected me to. Sitting still, following a fixed path and learning something because I was told I should never worked especially well for me.
Give me a problem I actually care about, though, and things are very different. I can disappear into something new, teach myself what I need to know, build it, break it, start again and lose considerably more hours to it than was probably reasonable.
As I have got older, I have realised that I actually love learning. I just like learning by doing. That is probably the common thread between media, cameras, drones, emergency response, software, AI, automation and the many strange side projects I have become obsessed with over the years.
So, yes. Problembarn. Just perhaps not for quite the reason my teachers thought.
I have spent most of my career somewhere between technology, people and the question: “Why are we doing it this way?”
Today I work where drone operations, emergency response, technology and practical workflows meet. At Tiepoint, my role spans operational systems, training, documentation, automation and the tools that connect them. A large part of my job is taking something that is manual, fragmented or unnecessarily difficult and turning it into a workflow that makes sense for the people who actually have to use it.
But I did not start in drones. My earlier career included Caprino Panoramic, Mediateket, Mediability and television and media production. Over time, the cameras became drones, production workflows became operational workflows, and technology became a much larger part of what I worked with.
My work in professional drone operations has included training and certification, operational procedures, SAR, oil spill response, mapping, sensor operations and the systems needed to manage pilots and operations at scale. Today, much of it is workflow and automation: connecting monday.com, Google Workspace and operational drone systems, building internal tools, working with APIs and AI, and reducing administration without losing control, traceability or safety.
Technology for its own sake does not interest me very much. Making technology useful does.
A searchable memory of meetings, conversations, ideas and decisions.
[screenshot / project page]A local-first activity and project tracker for Chromebook, because the existing options did not quite fit.
[screenshot / project page]Connecting pilot certifications, flight records and operational systems without people copying data around.
[screenshot / project page]A visual thinking and content-planning tool for cards, freeform ideas and AI-assisted sketches.
[screenshot / project page]Small tools and visualisers that make technical subjects easier to understand.
[screenshot / project page]Experiments that exist mainly because I wanted to know if they could work.
[screenshot / project page]Over time, the cameras became drones, production workflows became operational workflows, and technology became a much larger part of what I worked with.
Popcorn Eating Unicorn. Joined April 2022.
Head of Editing.
Workflow Specialist, later Key Account Manager Workflow Specialist.
Key Account Manager.
Editor and camera assistant on productions for ITV, NRK and Nirvana Film, plus video work at Pure Content. [years]
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