About the Developer

About The Developer

Hi! My name is Briana Billups and I am the creator of Package. I had the idea to create Package as a solution to a problem I faced as a college student at USC.

I studied Sound Design for Theatre and we had to make lots of paperwork for productions. I often found this to be tedious as I would have to use at least 4 different programs to complete a full paperwork package. The bigger the show, the more equipment necessary and the more paperwork had to be wrangled. I looked to the other technical domains my friends were in and they had much more simplified tools that provided all the paperwork on a single set of data. My lighting design friends could use a tool called Lightwright to generate and update their paperwork in one easy to use interface. I was shocked to find something like this didn't exist for sound designers and all the designers I talked to felt the exact same way.

During the pandemic I taught myself to code and created a few small prototypes to create signal flow drawings off of a small subset of data. I remember the first time I actually got my computer to draw an audio console in a signal flow and I was ecstatic. Since then, I have been adding features and functionality to make Package into the industry changing platform I know it can be!

First successful iteration of Package drawing an audio console