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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Currently offering scalable AI/ML solutions for resource-constrained entertainment agencies. My role involves identifying business pain points through qualitative and quantitative analysis, formulating actionable recommendations with value predictions, capturing requirements, creating documentation, working with engineers to execute MVPs, then shipping scaled solutions while communicating with stakeholders through frequent project status updates and managing change management processes.

New York, United States

A leader in global entertainment, UTA business spans both talent representation and production across dozens of disciplines. Managed the product and design teams for the live performance departments including music, comedy, and podcasting. We built and maintained the internal tooling and B2B product experience, and spearheaded the rebuilding of UTA's cloud platform.

Greater New York City Area

Locomotion is an UK based music company comprised of catalog investing, as well as label, publishing, and management services. I was tasked with leveraging fan insights to identify market opportunities, develop product ideas and oversee their development and coordinating go-to-market efforts.

Greater New York City Area

Cayuga Sound Festival is the premier modern music festival in Ithaca NY. Co-founded by the group X Ambassadors, the festival features diverse world renowned performers as well as budding local performers. The goal of the festival is to put Ithaca on the map as a destination for live music and give back to the community that raised the band. I was a co-founding producer, and was responsible for developing the concept and strategy, developing a pitch deck and raising investment, negotiating brand partnerships, leading marketing initiatives, and overseeing festival operations.

Greater New York City Area

This Fiction is a boutique artist management firm representing some of the most influential independent artists of the decade including X Ambassadors, Ra Ra Riot, Panama Wedding, Jukebox The Ghost and more. As a manager my job was to oversee all clients careers and make strategic decisions that help the them reach their professional goals. To do this I had to build a culture around my artists through building relationships, storytelling, communication, and building and executing release strategy with multiple teams across the world. Being a manager taught me to parse complexity into the most critical elements, own huge decisions, learn new skills quickly, be a generalist and an expert simultaneously, de-escelate stressful situations, and extract value from the smallest of opportunities.

New York, United States

NYC Haptics is a design firm that built and installed haptic products for public space to make them ADA compliant. Here, I oversaw the project operations of multiple museum installations. I also did some physical building of hardware chips sensors, servos and vibrations motors.

Prague, Czech Republic

Smecky is a world class film scoring music studio located in the heart of Prague. I planned and coordinated weekly recording sessions involving over 100 personnel. I also acted as general liason for all english speaking clients, managed equipment, and operated recording devices during productions. Credits include many films and modern classical recordings.

Greater Philadelphia

A professional recording studio outside of Philadelphia. I booked and ran recording sessions from end to end, and performed mixing and mastering services for musicians from all around the world.

Greater New York City Area

I toured the world with my band, playing in front of thousands of people and learning about teamwork, collaboration, grit, and the power of a great story.