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• Drive revenue growth through the coordination and management of high-value complex projects during the presale process.
• Streamline communication between estimating, project management, design, and production departments in support of the sales team.
• Identify retail and environmental design choices that require further exploration with prototyping, solutions design, or outsourcing.

Greater Chicago Area

• Manage exhibit production for museums, cultural institutions, and retail stores both nationally and internationally.
• Work with both in-house & external design, production, and sales departments to meet unique client needs.
• Manage RFPs and RFQs for digital interactives, custom materials and applications, delivery, and labor.
• Source and purchase a wide variety of materials including steel, acrylic, plywood, surface finishes, glass, and hardware.
• Review CAD drawings, revise for production methods. Direct design and production depts through the prototyping process.
• Head of exhibit electronic design- manage subcontractors for digital interactives, programming, and media integration.

Greater Chicago Area

• Supervise all technical aspects of 7 separate theater spaces - including lighting, sound systems, rental contracts, scheduling, and programming live lights/audio for shows.

Maalaea, HI

• Responsible for design, layout, cost estimates, construction and upkeep of exhibits at Hawaii’s largest aquarium.
• Worked with all departments including curatorial, education, marketing, operations, and administrative for implementation of exhibits that were on theme, scientifically accurate, on budget, and educational.
• Designed and installed 4 separate projection and theater systems, 2 webcams for live feeds and client-server video wall for the front gate.
• Implemented filming of “Sea Talk” scientific presentations for YouTube, ran live A/V, edited footage using multi-camera setup with board audio.
• Worked extensively with different video file types, editing, audio mastering, and exporting for exhibit and internet needs.
• Selected videotapes, film, slides, diagrams, and dive logs for a total archival project of the RCV-150 robotic submersible operated by HURL.

Maui, HI

• Worked backstage for multiple live theater productions at a 680 seat theater in Lahaina, Maui including a permanent show, ’Ulalena, designed by ARRA Montreal (of Cirque du Soleil).
• Operated moving stage automation, manipulated props, rigged acrobats, and repaired costuming. Rigged audio and lighting.
• Worked in a high stress, demanding, safety-sensitive, and highly time sensitive environment with a production team to run live shows to exacting standards.

• Designed and installed display walls, seasonal, product and window displays for high-end retail stores at the Galleria Edina.
• Focused store and product lighting, installed chandeliers and sconce lighting displays.