VINTA Gallery is an ethical, vertically integrated Canadian e-commerce brand offering chic, modern Filipiñana, and Filipino-inspired fashion. Our collections include men's and women's ready-to-wear, made-to-measure, and couture/wedding clothing. Inspired by traditional Filipino textiles and craft, our heirloom quality garments are hand crafted in-house in our atelier located in Parañaque CIty (National Capital Region), Philippines.

My range of expertise is broad and I take enormous pride in leveraging a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to solving problems.>> Event producing small to large scale multi-day events including: schedule, budget, recruitment and management of production team, venue, partnership strategy, activations, publicity/promotions, and reporting.>> Arts and culture programming, development, outreach and implementation.>> Marketing and brand strategy: including artistic direction, and execution of marketing collateral, digital and print formats; organizational messaging, copy writing, digital content curation and strategy, and social media management; video production and photography>> Ideation, business start-up, development, management and innovation; social enterprises, creative entrepreneurship.>> Professional mentor Clients include, but not limited to: Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Ontario, Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Work In Culture Toronto, CFC Media Lab 5th Wave Initiative (Canada's first feminist business accelerator), etc.

- Catalyzed the transition of Kapisanan from a traditional Filipino community group by successfully restructuring the organization into a community-based, multi-arts, charitable organization that operates within an authentic youth-for-youth model-- the first and only of its kind in Canada- Business development, integration of strategy, finance, governance, and operational planning: Developed social enterprises accounting for up to 34% of organizational income, annually; Grown and diversified organizational operating budget by 275% in 5 years; Developed and stewarded on-going relationships with government and non-government funders; Lowered the inherited accumulated deficit from 34% down to 0% in 5 years; - Created and maintained organizational human resources policies, lead all hiring, firing, and staff evaluations; Created and maintained organizational administrative financial, and budgetary allocation policies and processes.- Developed innovative culturally specific, arts based programming for youth (17-24) mounted annually; Developed mobile arts and Filipino cultural programming delivered in Ontario elementary and high schools; -Developed and stewarded strategic partnerships with other arts and media organizations in the GTA, including: OCADU, Artscape, Work In Culture, Fractured Atlas, Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival, etc.- Has grown annual KULTURA Filipino Arts Festival, as Festival Director, into a mainstream summer festival with sponsorship, municipal and federal funding, mainstream press coverage, and over 15,000 attendees in 2015, its 10th year; - Developed and implemented robust non-profit brand strategy (artistic direction of arts and cultural presentations, events, marketing (all collateral), and organizational messaging, including community and content strategy execution and management (4300+ members on FaceBook, 1100+ followers on Twitter, and average of 6000 hits per month on website/blog from all over the world).

The Digital Sweatshop is a Toronto based production company.Major projects include: Ang Pamana: The Inheritance - feature film - $1M CDN budget – shot in Canada and The Philippines (national theatrical release in the Philippines, 2006) St. Jamestown - 1 hour tv drama - $135K budget – shot in Canada (national broadcast, VisionTV 2004)Rolling Longaniza - short film - $38K CDN budget – shot in Canada (national broadcast, CBC 2004)Ron RN – half hour tv comedy series – Development - $40K budget (Telefilm Canada 2004)

As an intern I produced, directed, and edited two 14-minute documentary films about youth from six different countries (Canada, USA, UK, Kenya, Cameroon, Tanzania) speaking about global environmental and sustainable consumption issues entitled “Things We Carry” + “Carrying On: Words On Consumption” -- Distributed in BC highschools part of social studies and environmental sciences curriculums. (2000) Executive Producers: UNEP and EYA, funded by CIDA and UNEP.