David Mans is a highly versatile professional with extensive design, development, and education expertise. He is passionate about creating and publishing tools and workflows that enable multidisciplinary designers to explore new ways of creating and inspiring the next generation to embrace and drive technological change. Currently, he serves as the Vice President of Applications Development at Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio, where he leads the development of ellipse Studio, an AEC data presentation platform, and a lightweight digital twin. In addition to his developer role on multiple web applications, he is the creator of the CORE studio Adobe Illustrator Toolkit and a supporting developer of TT Toolbox. He also holds the position of Director of CORE studio’s AECtech conference, which brings together innovators in the Design, AEC, and Software space for an annual series of global symposiums, workshops, and hackathons. David transitioned from a successful architectural design career to a software developer. He held prestigious positions such as Senior Computational Designer at Grimshaw Architects NYC and Lead Designer for the Terra canopy at the 2020 Dubai Expo. Earlier, during his time at Woods Bagot’s Global Studio, he contributed to over 50 projects in 11 countries, including significant work on the facade design for the SAHMRI project in Adelaide, Australia.
