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Los Angeles, CA, US

• Product Ideation: Integrated insights from my diverse industry background into product ideation meetings, contributing real-world perspectives to shape AI-driven solutions that align with market needs.
• Prompt Engineering: Developed and optimized AI prompts for tools like MidJourney and Stable Diffusion, identifying model strengths and addressing problem areas to enhance the quality and relevance of generated content.
• AI Tool Research: Conducted thorough research on cutting-edge tools such as MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, and RunwayML, assessing their potential to enhance product capabilities and streamline workflows.
• Documentation: Authored comprehensive documentation detailing AI workflows, ensuring clarity and accessibility for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

New York, US

• Collaborated with a globally distributed team of engineers using Agile Methodologies in a fast-paced startup environment by leveraging tools such as Git, Slack, and Asana.
• Provided technical support, guidance, and documentation to the operations team and customers, which helped reduce onboarding friction, and increased satisfaction with the product.
• Took ownership in the development and testing of dozens of automated email reminder jobs, saving the operations team hundreds of hours.
• Refactored legacy jQuery scripts to functional React components, which substantially increased code maintainability and the ability to test for bugs.
• Oversaw the transition from in-house custom SCSS to standardized Bootstrap 5.2 SCSS, which reduced complexity, resulting in increased collaboration between engineering and product teams.
• Automated Rails/PostgresQL migrations on deployment to Heroku resulting in increased availability and accuracy of data, and eliminating the need to run migrations manually.

San Mateo, California, US

• Refactored React class components to functional, and added static typing with TypeScript to increase maintainability.
• Remotely collaborated with a team of engineers using Linear for issue-tracking, and Git version control.
• Developed within the principles of the Apache Software Foundation, while contributing to the Open-Source Software community.

• Refactored client websites with HTML5, CSS3, and media queries, increasing usability across platforms and improving UXs.
• Integrated marketing campaigns into websites, boosting SEO which increased brand awareness.
• Implemented AWS S3 buckets for media storage, improving load times.

• Designed and programmed dozens of custom lighting algorithms on the spot, in a time-sensitive, high-stress environment.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team members on 50+ film and television projects/crews, with several resulting in Emmy award-winning cinematography.
• Researched new technology and LAN/wireless network solutions daily, resulting in reduced troubleshooting times, and proficiency in referencing technical documentation.

Full Stack Web Development

Bfa, Film