Designing storytelling approaches to new media and immersive experiences. Collaborating with filmmakers, new media artists and teams producing compelling experiences amplifying the potential of traditional media, interactive and extended reality (XR) projects. Pre/Pro/Post production practices, pipeline and workflows.

As a Creative Producer I manage both client-driven products as well as in-house media and technology projects. Working with collaborative teams we create emerging media content across media platforms and channels. As immersive storytelling platforms emerge I seek out best practices for design and development optimized for exemplar product-driven workflows.• Experience with video and live-stream productions, on set and on-location with AltspaceVR, BrightTalk, Doodle, Facebook Live, Google Hangouts, , Livestream, OVEE, Twitter Live, Ustream, YouTube Live, Vimeo Live• Adept at digital, social media and crowdfunding engagement with communities.• Evangelism, demos and training on emerging media platforms.• UX / MX on product design and development collaborative, cross functional teams.• Presentations and pitches of projects, products and impact platforms.• Use of product and project management apps and platforms.• Passionate problem solver and lateral thinker.Emerging media product design and creative media solutions for notable clients such as NBC, Apple, Microsoft, LucasFilm, LucasArts, The George Lucas Educational Foundation, Interval Research Corporation, The Kodak Center for Creative Imaging, Warner New Media, Tribeca Film Institute, Institute of Noetic Sciences, New Mexico Tourism Department and National and State Humanities Departments.

Multi-camera video production at annual summer International Teacher's Institute. Post production of videos.

Created visual brand graphics, logo, illustration map and content layout for the Abiquiú Area Guide and Map brochure using Adobe Create Cloud InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Printable Map and Guide PDF available for download.

UX / UI design for Art Card App for Artists. Designed and developed as a participant in The Cocoa Conspiracy Group. Prototype with Proto.io app and development with Xcode. Also designed mobile responsive website with front-end development
 with backend database of artist information.

Produced emerging media, interactive and immersive prototypes with Melinda Hess, Jewish filmmaker and artist in Residence.http://jewishfilminstitute.org/2015/08/17/jfi-announces-2015-16-filmmaker-in-residence-melinda-hess/

Produced The Shiprock Experience Project Interactives selected for The Tribeca All Access® program. Designed interactive prototypes augmenting and extending the digital boundaries of the documentary film, The Mayors of Shiprock, by Reel Indian Pictures. Designed two experiences: one a tablet traditional storytelling app, the second a responsive web/mobile design grass-roots volunteer actions and opportunities youth app. From 2015-2017 continued to support the project social media and Shiprock Experience Project website. The Mayors of Shiprock, aired on KNME PBS and WORLD Channel.

Produced short form online videos – Journeys of traditional hispanic weavers, fiber arts and artists Ad Campaigns for Arts non-profit and New Mexico Department of Tourism.

Content Marketing across multiple channels and media projects amplifying public awareness and engagement around social documentary films.

New Media UX | UI Designer with a hybrid team of storytellers creating interactive stories around indigenous education and history. Created Nizhoni Kinaalda' interactive storybook app about the world of a Navajo girl's coming of age ceremony.https://tribecafilminstitute.org/events/detail/tribeca_hacks_ndn_country

Media production participant for Historical Foundation For SE NM For Robert Goddard Foundation covering the legacy of rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard and his years of research in Roswell.http://robertgoddard.org

HD Video Production for Bridging Ages is an international organization utilizing nearby history to understand life and society of today by recreating the past in an educational setting. Bridging Ages consists of people from schools, communities, museums, local historic societies, and everybody who is interested in the local heritage. Presentations by history representatives from Denmark, Finland, Italy, Kenya, Sweden, South Africa the United States. http://www.bridgingages.com

Filmmaker/Hacker participant at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Deployed Mozilla's Popcorn Maker technology enhancing video/ audio with interactive content: associated location-based media and time-based triggered archival clips and photos. Created interactive experiences including: (1) a gesture-based Motion Leap timeline, (2) sound triggered repurposed archival media and (3) location based data over narrative with interactive documentary interfaces and other Google Chrome Experiments (https://www.chromeexperiments.com). Content focus on The Internet Archives and The Prelinger Archives with family ephemeral materials.https://tribecafilminstitute.org/events/detail/tribeca_hacks_ltarchivesgt

Produced 6-part series of short videos highlighting aspects of Federal program including volunteer and rural community efforts for Army Corp of Engineers.

Expanding muti-screen design beyond the home media center or living room to all areas interacting re-imagining the way we watch, interact and participate with media content. Emerging media developers at the TV HackFest app design and development was quite imaginative and intense! Article about the event. http://lnkd.in/sbrWNgFlickr photos - http://flic.kr/s/aHsjE2ZbCBApps World – http://www.apps-world.net

NBC Dateline Special – Shot & delivered footage included in NBC Dateline Special, "Back to Woodstock: The 'Woodstock generation' remembers the music festival, 40 years later."

“Living Deeply: Practices from the World's Transformative Traditions,” – Experiential practices guided by master teachers of transformative traditions including Catholicism, Religious Science, Buddhism, Himalayan Yoga, Cross-Cultural Shamanism, Sufism, Expressive Arts, Kabbalism and African Yoruban Spirituality.

Established Digital Media Lab, taught digital imaging, photography and video for artists.http://nnmc.edu

Produced 90-minute documentary "e-Plaza," tapestry of rural stories for over two thousand licensed archival photos, procured Creative Commons Licenses for contemporary and historic songs and from Smithsonian Folkways Archive Collection. UX online  prototype . https://vimeo.com/8953436

Cinematographer and Producer of “Stories of Success & Empowerment for Women and Children,” drawing from a diverse college population where 190 languages spoken.https://vimeo.com/8952875

Interactive design project around the Chinese-American immigration experience surrounding the personal stories from the Chinese Exclusion Act Era and Angel Island immigrant experiences. "Separate Lives, Broken Dreams," the multimedia project based on nationally recognized documentary "Living Widows & Paper Sons," by Jennie Lew.

Designs for cutting edge educational technology interactive exhibits.

Creative Director for large-scale design and production projects. Produced animated game experiences targeted for girls ages 7 to 12 as part of advanced technology research. Developed innovative "personalized journey" storytelling and "emotional branching" narratives for interactive game play. Participate in nation-wide user studies with target audience for story, characters and game play.

Designed interactive prototypes based on publisher’s content-base for multimedia. UX — prototype — UI workflow.

Taught digital imaging workshops for artists, photographers and journalists.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Creative_Imaging

Designed UX — prototype — UI design examples for this joint ventures between Apple Computer and IBM set out to produce a common multimedia platform with and an object oriented scripting language.

Interface & Interaction Designer using museum archives as rich resource for interactive media educational experiences.

UX — prototype — UI projects for Microsoft's emerging technology Interactive TV initiative using content from estabilished publishing properties. Created interactive: “Graffiti Creativity Box,” “Weavings: From Cotton Gin to Computer” & “Sidewalk Astronomers,” and more. Multi-screen design with broadcast media. Began work at Continuum Productions (now Corbis) then project moved to Microsoft.

Video producer and UX — prototype — UI on special projects between LucasArts & NTT of Japan, working with executives from Japanese phone company in developing interactive new media prototypes.http://www.lucasarts.com

Designed interactive new media multiple storyline prototypes (UX/UI). Recruited and lead creative team. Produced and directed a creative team on a multi-screen design character-based products. "Paul Parkranger & The Mystery of the Disappearing Ducks.” This was a CD-ROM + 2-sided videodisc, Student Case Book & Teacher Guide for LucasArts & Audubon Society Collaboration. Product based on 1989 narrative prototype our interdisciplinary, cross-functional team developed during Apple, LucasFilm Collaboration.

Interactive prototypes for three interactive Mars & Mars Rover exhibits for the Air & Space Museum with Context Productions.

Consultant in the development of the educational nonprofit The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) and innovative new media design projects.

Designed interactive user-experience  prototype  design examples for a unique collaboration between Apple Multimedia Lab, a pioneering interactive media research group, and LucasFilm. We created rapid prototypes and multi-screen design examples for emerging media platforms.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Multimedia_Lab

Designed emerging voice recognition interface design of a bilingual interactive UX — prototype — UI for learning language for the Apple Computer, Human Interface Group.

Consultant to Library of Congress, The American Memory Project. Digital migration from videodiscs and CD-ROMs. Master archives included photographs, film/video footage, reel-to-reel and cassette-based oral histories, music and documents.

Created unique sound exhibits and sound archives for use in interactive exhibits.

Media design & consultant on digital Archive of California Native American oral histories.

Journey to the New World: Ellis Island.” Slides, videodisc, current immigrants interviews, rare archival film footage, oral histories & ethnic music from the various immigrant groups at Ellis Island. Designed exquisite photographic interface to media materials allowing visitors to explore the "Ellis Island Experience" as if making the historic journey via real stories. Created a virtual navigation tool of the Ellis Island Museum for story viewing. Created tool for students to composite immigration stories via a multimedia collection of images, oral histories & ethnic music.

Co-Director and Producer of LucasFilm Apple Computer Umbrella (LUAU) Collaboration. Design and produced groundbreaking interactive prototypes merging the worlds of emerging design and film. Prototype design examples created at joint position at Apple Multimedia Lab and LucasFilm.

Re-purposed content designed for multi-screen educational interactive activities and games. Designed UX/UI HyperCard developed “Interactive Square One TV,” from Children’s Television Workshop's SQ1 TV middle school math programming video broadcasts.