Contact Quick Links:
For general inquiries about MIT Project Manus, please contact Sarah Gallaher at gallaher [at] mit.edu
For questions about the Mobius app, please contact Jonathan Hunt at jmhunt [at] mit.edu
For questions about the Make Impact Consortium, please contact Gene Sasso at makeimpact@mit.edu
A jack of all trades and master of none, Oliver's superpower is that he is able to sound plausible in almost any situation. He styles himself an amateur technologian and a professional pitchman not trying to sell anything. He constantly struggles with being a passionate generalist in an age that increasingly values specialization. He strives to master his fears of crowds, clowns, and peak oil before any of them can do him in. He likes chocolate, dogs (but not chocolate near dogs), and making things. He believes that waterjet cutters > laser cutters even though lasers >> water, and that 3D printers will someday become really useful.
(Also, 25 years of enterprise IT, architecture, and software design experience at MIT, yada yada yada.)
As the Senior Program Manager for the Project Manus, Make Impact Consortium, Eugene (Gene) Sasso helps Consortium partners design, deliver, and deploy products and services to students, augmenting their academic pursuits, and enhancing their postgraduate success. Gene arrived in higher education after a career as a thinker-doer focused (sometimes) on marketing, communications, and brand activity. He is an avid mentor and networker whose best days include contact with current and former students, sharing success and horror stories. Gene believes in life-centered design, where humans find their place, doing as little harm as possible to all of the other beings and systems on this and other planets. Gene’s goal is to live an inspired life.