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London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Lead development of cultural applications for 5G mobile platforms. Work with R&D departments of Ericsson and Centre for Telecommunications Research, King’s College London.

Develop policy recommendations for the European Council and other legal bodies regarding ICT and AI, healthcare and digital transition.

London

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Nantes, Pays De La Loire, France

London, England, United Kingdom

Berlin, Germany

Modeling security issues regarding AI and Autonomous Systems.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Joined as specialist in technology, networks and media production. Co-editing volume on digital museum planning to be released in 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield.• Developed technology forecast and research plan for Virtual Museum of Canada.• Delivered keynote speech Designing Experience to 2016 Chinese Association of Museums annual conference.• Conducted ‘design surgeries’ at Museum of World Religion, Taipei and Museum of Prehistory, Taitan, Taiwan.

London, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Cinema Arts Network is the UK’s Digital network for the arts. It services the cultural sector by encouraging UK-wide cooperation around digital programming, production and exhibition. It provides necessary scale to cultural organisations that could not independently procure the capital, talent and market presence required for digital transformation.____Chief executive and director of Cinema Arts Network, a consortium of sixteen of the UK’s top cultural venues. Backed by the British Film Institute, the company builds digital infrastructure that supports leading edge business ventures in media and the arts.• Expanded geographic scope of company from north of England to entire UK.• Built gigabit network linking art centres in 12 UK cities.• Rebuilt ICT infrastructure to handle high speed data in 12 member venues.• Developed over 20 partnerships in cultural and commercial sectors.• Delivered over 2,000 film programmes in 2014.• Produced broadcasts of live performances including London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symohony Orchastra & Singers, and John Cooper Clark.• Piloted in-house mobile engagement platform based on WiFi.• Grew membership from 5 to 16, including the Barbican and BFI Southbank.• Recruited and mentored staff across a range of disciplines including engineering, programming and business development.

London - San Antonio

Developed 5-year strategic plan for City of San Antonio and Luminaria Board of Directors to transform Luminaria arts festival into a globally significant festival of arts and ideas. Festival relaunch in November 2014 attracted 200,000+ attendees.• Aligned festival with municipal growth priorities.• Built stakeholder consensus around complete revision of operational structure.• Revised commissioning strategy to include national and international artists.• Created innovative biennial/lab calendar to maintain public engagement.• Worked directly with Mayor’s Office and other significant public and private authorities.• Aligned festival mission with broader development goals of San Antonio.• Developed 2014 satellite “ideas fest” with Western Arts Alliance

New York City

Multispectrum consulting and production company. Clients included NHK (Tokyo/New York), High Fidelity HDTV (Canada), The Submarine Channel (Amsterdam), Context TV (Berlin), Indieflix (Seattle), Visionquest Entertainment (Australia), Gedeon Productions (France), Babelgum Networks (London).• Produced Epitaph, an autobiographical short directed by Dennis Hopper.• Developed new branding, editorial and design for the Submarine Channel, a leading online destination for documentary and transmedia programming.• Guided development of NHK’s 3D Cosmomedia’s in North American operations, resulting in 3D productions of performances by Bill T Jones, Robert Wilson, Lang Lang and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.• Produced Times Square launch event for Babelgum Networks featuring Isabella Rossellini and Guy Maddin.• Created video for live performances commissioned by New York City Opera.• Created Ouroboros and Baghdad Transcendental art installations that attracted thousands of visitors and press coverage including feature interviews in The New York Times and Cool Hunting.

Managed production, licensing and broadcast efforts for television channels Gallery HD, Equator HD and LAB HD. Developed programming proposition. Oversaw scheduling and operations, coordinate programming and marketing initiatives with other Voom HD television channels. As acting head of Digital Media group in 2006, developed websites, podcasts and multiplatform programming for suite of high-definition television channels.• Launched Gallery HD and LAB HD respectively as first art documentary and video art television channels. Built program libraries, developed original programming strands and managed scheduling, stunts and network promotions.• Positioned Equator HD as millennial generation television brand that celebrates diversity, ecology and global awareness.• Attracted top-tier talent, including Brad Pitt, Winona Ryder, Johnny Depp and Robert Downey, Jr. to Robert Wilson Video Portrait series.• Built coproduction relationships in all major TV markets, including UK, France, Germany, Canada, Japan and Australia.• Executive producer of 200+ hours of domestic and international documentary television.• Licensed 2,000+ of HDTV programs from global partners at discounted rates.• Robert Wilson Video Portrait series featured on cover of Dec, 2006 issue of Vanity Fair.• Productions exhibited in major film festivals and museums, including the Lincoln Center, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Montreal Festival of Film on Art, the Whitney, MoMA and the American Museum of the Moving Image.• Involved in domestic and international launches of three Voom satellite/cable television networks.• Relaunched Voom websites with newly developed video features in three months.

Contributed to launch strategy of woman’s television network. Managed eighty staff and seven hundred social network volunteers for a cable network founded by Geraldine Laybourne and Oprah Winfrey. Developed interactive television programming and online content including a live webcast of Al Gore. Participated in business development including affiliation with AOL Time Warner. Managed software development including user registration and affinity marketing tools.• Negotiated a partnership affecting 900,000 subscribers with Time Warner.• Merged staff from five companies into a single reporting and budget structure.• Reduced annual expenses by $200,000 through volunteer management program.• Reduced operational costs by 25% by integrating social network infrastructure.• Created innovative dual registration strategy for major partners.• Developed interactive television functionality for key program strands.

Produced interactive and community programs that integrated online elements into television broadcasts. Managed the "netcam network," a system of videophones for viewers to appear on live television. Supervised web and television production, including TV marketing spots and special promotions. Developed and managed a webcasting studio for streaming media production. Oversaw production of COMDEX News video reports.• Built one of the first interactive television production teams.• Launched the Television Palace, an application that merges chat and television.• Developed several business partnerships, including ZDNet and Electric Communities.• Launched Chat Day, the first broadcast chat marathon, with 4,500 participants.• Built social network of 20,000 members around videophones and webcams.• Garnered national coverage, including Time Magazine, for “Bill Gates dancing” video.

Oversaw studio production for online edition of The Site, a daily television newsmagazine co-produced by ZDTV and NBC. Managed freelance writers and wrote for website. Produced in-house promotional spots and coordinated television promotions with web marketing team.• Leadership role in the first "converged media" teams that integrated TV and online production.• Raised online traffic by 25% with television promotions.• Introduced Eview feature that let audience members interview studio guests.• Created management system to coordinate online marketing and distribution.

New York City

Ph.D., Philosophy & Linguistic Anthropology

Ba, Philosophy

Education record

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