About Me
I'm Dave Gustav Anderson, founder of Bump This Fist.
I've spent 20+ years building digital systems, from pulling network cables in schools to architecting workflows and dashboards for global brands. My work has reached millions through digital platforms, print, and television with a career spanning media, entertainment, cosmetics, manufacturing, and food & beverage.
Career Timeline
StorkStakes baby pool prediction app
Bump This Fist LLC
Consultancy focused on process optimization, custom application development, and system implementations for enterprise organizations and startups. Recent work includes leading product and program management for a venture-backed technology startup and building analytics dashboards monitoring ERP transformation for a global food manufacturing company. When client tooling falls short, I build rapid custom solutions to fill the gaps, like a tester dashboard that addressed reporting blind spots mid-implementation. Side projects include StorkStakes, a baby pool guessing game that was 13 years in the making.
Karma Method LLC
Co-founded a consultancy that started by building large-scale WordPress implementations for TV networks, doing things most people don't know WordPress can do, but not using it exclusively for every project. Clients included BBC America (full site rebuild and CMS rearchitecture), iHeartRadio (promotional microsites), and early work on what would become BritBox. Also led data migrations and Atlassian suite implementations (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) for a Fortune 500 cosmetics company's global teams. Built a Doctor Who soundboard that ran on kiosks at San Diego Comic-Con.
BritBox coming soon page built at Karma Method
NY Times clipping featuring my quote and a photo I took of Harley Flanagan
Bowery Boogie
Co-founded one of Manhattan's largest hyper-local news sites, reaching 75,000 monthly visitors at its peak. Handled branding, marketing, ad sales, technical infrastructure, and merch while my co-founder ran editorial. Used the site as a testing ground for emerging tech I'd later pitch to BBC America. Notable coverage included Hurricane Sandy and the 2012 Cro-Mags incident, my photo of Harley Flanagan became the most widely-used image of the event, picked up by The New York Times and licensed for documentaries.
BBC Studios
Ran the technical side of BBCAmerica.com and created BBC America's Facebook and Twitter presence when brand pages first launched. This role became a crash course in rapid technology adoption, figuring out what was possible before there were playbooks for it.
Photo I took backstage at San Diego Comic-Con 2013 of Matt Smith, Craig Ferguson, Chris Hardwick, and Community's Gillian Jacobs, Allison Brie, and Nicole Yvette Brown during promotion for Doctor Who
On float with Pitbull, 2006 Puerto Rican Day Parade
Freelance Photographer/Videographer/Editor
Work appeared in BBC America, Billboard, TV Guide, NY1, New York Post, Daily News, Daily Mail, Spin Magazine, and The Today Show. Covered Bonnaroo and Bamboozle for Spin in 2009. Shot intimate performances by numerous artists including Against Me!, Florence and the Machine, The Black Keys, The Cult, Tori Amos, and Peter Bjorn and John. Occasionally ended up in unexpected places.
Electrician's Apprentice
Specialized in low-voltage systems, security, fire, CCTV, and network infrastructure across commercial buildings and school districts. Spent years pulling cable, retrofitting buildings for high-speed Ethernet, and learning to troubleshoot systems methodically. That diagnostic instinct still runs underneath everything I build today.
Working on a phone pole during CCTV installation
Education
New York University
Bachelor of Science, graduated magna cum laude. Earned an NYU Founders' Day Award.