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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

Initiate, coordinate, and manage independent and collaborative production projects. Source and select material, create budgets and schedules, secure funding, assemble creative teams, conduct pre-production research and development, approve final edits, oversee distribution and festival submissions, and execute marketing strategies for final projects• Producer, We Were Born Dead (Est 2025); Pre-Production; NYU Richard Vague Fund Winner, PGA Create Lab, Bogota Audiovisual Market • Producer, Coco & Nut (Est 2025); Pre-Production• Producer, Conduit (Short) and Fall Risk (Short), Post-Production ** Completed 1 month ahead of schedule**• Producer, Satchell (Feature) and Helldust (Feature); Development• Executive Producer, Seagrass (2024); Official Selection @ TIFF; Distributed by Game Theory Films• Producer, SAG film Unidentified Objects (2023); Official Selection @ TIFF Inside Out, OutFest (Narrative Aud. Prize), Distributed by Quiver and Showtime/Paramount Plus

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Supervise physical production ensuring shows met schedule, budget, and quality KPIsAssistant Director Trainee, 2018 - 2021• Completed program with reviews of over 4 out of 5Productions- Hunters, Daisy Jones, Hive, Brothers Sun, Brooklyn 99, Perfect Harmony, Space Force, Vegas High, Animal Kingdom, Good Trouble, Mosquito Coast

Los Angeles, California, United States

Impact Theory is a mission-driven modern media company designed to create positive change in people’s lives through the relentless creation of entertaining and empowering content.- Accelerated product release cycle by over 50% resulting in two new product launches and one product release in three month time frame before holidays- Led development of web3-backed digital experience (class leading in company) which improved retention by 12%- Created opportunity to partner with three other web3 communities increasing potential customer base by 250%. Reduced CAC by 35%

Los Angeles, California, United States

- Led release of new colocation center visibility system, leveraging React, Python, Thrift, and GraphQL. Skillfully balanced maintaining service continuity and developing a new system, meeting evolving business needs and supporting 10x more use cases- Architected and managed a team to build a remote site access system, integrating multiple external partners. This increased operational visibility and achieved 95% adoption rate- Mentored 4-5 junior engineers in React, Hack/PHP, and GraphQL, focusing on design principles and best practices. Increased development velocity by 10%

Menlo Park, California, United States

Facebook is a social networking site that makes it easy for you to connect and share with family and friends online.- Identified the need for and led the development of a unified dashboard for unmanned network locations, improving decision-making speed by 10x and preventing issues that could impact over 12 sites.- Led the expansion in the Asia region, contributing to a 40% increase in user capacity and a 95ms latency reduction.- Coordinated the deployment of a billion-dollar dark fiber plant, resulting in a 10x capacity increase and completion of all projects on schedule and within budget.- Revamped a logical audit application, ensuring 100% accuracy for Facebook audits, reducing daily runtime from 8 hours to under 2 hours, maintaining over 97% accuracy in asset accounting, and reducing asset location time from weeks to minutes.- Developed a mobile app that increased network deployment velocity by 10% and reduced deployment errors by 15%.- Spearheaded the automation in the prototype and pilot of Datacenter Robotics, leading to leadership approval for widespread deployment.

Portsmouth, Virginia, United States

The CG & DHS premier engineering, lifecycle, and service management center for Command, Control, Communications, Surveillance, Intelligence, and Navigation systems- Oversaw five hardware-software hybrid product launches with zero downtime and within schedule, budget, and quality requirements enabling $5T in maritime transportation- Led Lean Six Sigma project on complicated software development process resulting in over 90% reduction in completion time and savings of $550k. Increased user satisfaction with product by 20%.

San Diego, California, United States

Premier military sea service with the simple mission to: "Protect. Defend. Save."- Efficiently managed short-notice $750,000 ship safety system project to completion in less than three months ensuring national security operations were not delayed, compromised, or cancelled- Developed and executed complex, multi-agency plan removing and storing over $1 million worth of ammunition in a 16-hour time frame- Led armory staff consisting of seven personnel responsible for the administration of $1 million worth of ammunition and maintenance on $2 million worth of crew-served weapons and small arms. Contributed to two promotions and 15 qualifications received

San Diego, California, United States

• Successfully oversaw pre-production, and post of pilot **Directed spending enabling show to come within 3% of budget**

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Computer/Information Technology Administration And Management, Entertainment Management

Activities and Societies: AnderTech, Entertainment Management Association, Black Business, Entrepreneur Association, FEMBA Council

Master Of Science (M.S.), Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Student Veterans Association, IEEE

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical And Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE, NNOA, Track and Field