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Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Wellington Region, New Zealand

Building and maintaining reporting systems that aggregate the activities of all shows to orchestrate a nimble process of slate programming and scenario planning; Partnering with show leadership to ensure shows are running optimally and meeting key milestones; Ensuring shows are appropriately resourced; Ensuring shows are meeting budgetary targets; Building a framework for global operations and communications. Partnering with data analysts to build a foundation of clean, connected data that fuels insights and analysis.

Wellington Region, New Zealand

Delivering creative excellence whilst inspiring teams to succeed, building lasting relationships with filmmakers and studios, streamlining processes, and generating profits – often during challenging circumstances and on multiple, concurrent projects. Enabling others to reach their potential, guiding five individuals into visual effects producer roles. Advocating change and innovation, ranging from introducing new production techniques to leading production taskforce initiatives that continuously improve the organisation’s tools and processes to better meet its ever-changing needs.

Beijing City, China

Planning and managing all aspects of a show with the main focus on delivering on time and within budget.This typically involved: preparing initial visual effects breakdowns; compiling bids and creating effective approach plans with the Visual Effects Supervisor; planning and scheduling facility resources; motivating and leading large teams with enthusiasm and clarity; managing communications, maintaining a constant dialog to ensure a common understanding.

Beijing City, China

Preparing and presenting concept/design briefs with a 71% award rate; Defining project objectives in detail, analyzing customers to determine the workflow, target audience and strategy to reach and engage them; Identifying the resources involved, timeline, approval process, deliverables and milestones; Managing the design and development teams of around 30 artists, ensuring that the clients and our QA standards are met; Managing communications with government agencies and FTSE 100 companies, maintaining a constant dialogue to ensure a common understanding of the project.* Singapore Tourism Board/XM Asia - Shanghai Expo Online Pavilion* Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs – Shanghai Expo Online Pavilion* P&G - Washing detergent 3D interactive learning tool, Sales tools 2D animation.* London Olympic Committee - 3D launch animation for London Olympic Mascots* London Olympic Committee – London Olympic supplier agreement* UPS - Olympic Story 3D animation* BBC – Beijing Olympic Venue animations

Basingstoke, England

Planning, designing, developing, debugging and updating electronic workflow applications, a business metrics system and the company intranet; Writing production reports for post-project analysis and providing project reports, user manuals and training.

Bsc, E-Commerce Systems, 2:1

Chinese Language