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California, United States

Calabasas, California, Us

Thousand Oaks, Ca, Us

Sideshow makes licensed collectibles including action figures, figurines, and polystone busts.• Built custom E-Commerce solution from the ground up using PHP / Laravel.• Combined new site with legacy WordPress DB and customized functionality.• Integrated 3rd party APIs such as Instagram, Emarsys.

Los Angeles, Us

Young Hollywood finances, creates and distributes original programming covering Hollywood and the worlds of Music, Film, Television, Sports and Lifestyle.• Created a custom campaign management system for advertisers enabling partners to track in real-time their campaign results, social media conversation, celebrity product seeding, and branded content integrations. • Completely redesigned main web property, creating custom responsive template. Built modules and components resulting in a 3x faster average page load. • Created and implemented new db system structure and related interface for video assets, including automated data exchange with BrightCove, multiple CDN networks and YouTube APIs.

Disney Interactive delivers high-quality interactive entertainment experiences and games such as Pixie Hollow. • Responsible for development and maintenance of Pixie Hollow site. Created new calendar and event display system for users. Worked with large scale AS3 framework with hundreds of custom classes. Utilized Action Script 3, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS and HTML.• Created new login system for site that cut user load waiting time by 50% by combing AS3, JavaScript and priority loading.

New York City, Ny, Us

NBC Universal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience. • Created a tool to enable focus groups to participate online and gather user feedback on shows, movies and marketing campaigns• Rebuilt and repurposed high profile consumer websites to coexist in the NBC/Universal ecosystem, most notably for: The Producers, Munich, Miami Vice, Accepted, The Mummy, Brokeback Mountain and The Break-up. Converted numerous static sites such as Jerry Springer / Maury / Steve Wilkos to the Movable Type platform enabling non-technical staff to dynamically update videos, image galleries, and articles. • Engineered and developed both the consumer and business facing facets of the Universal CityWalk website utilizing Flash, XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and PHP. Created the special event custom ticketing system for corporate events utilizing PHP, MySQL, Oracle, Excel, XML, and linked the data to existing ticketing system.

Denver, Co, Us

Taught classes in Web Design, Graphic Design, Digital Illustration, and 3D Modeling and Animation. Classes focused on the use of Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, Dreamweaver, Cinema 4D, 3D Studio Max, and Flash in addition to HTML, CSS, Browser/Web usability, image format/compression and general design principles. Received several ‘Excellence in Education’ Awards based on faculty and student reviews of performance.Developed new curriculum for classes in Web Design, Digital Illustration and 3D Modeling and Animation.