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Greater Salt Lake City Area

Owned every aspect of the motion design pipeline for the credit union’s marketing initiatives. Created large high-visablity Motion billboards, LEDs signs, and environmental ads for high-profile sporting events including NBA, NHL, and Major NCAA schools. Animated digital content for social, tv commercials, email, and HTML5 web deployment. These ads proved over and over again a higher engagement rate than the equivalent static ads. Distilled financial jargon into easily understood ads, all while working within legal and compliance needs. Brainstormed and created many highly successful campaigns for our financial products.

Salt Lake City, Utah

• Creative direction, strategy, producing TV, web, and music videos. • Everything from Concept, Storyboarding, Directing, Videography, Sync sound, DIT, Motion Graphics, Branding, Stop Motion, Transcoding, Nonlinear Editing, Compression & Digital Intermediate Delivery.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Produced fun, cool, & educational videos for National Geographic’s Animal Jam.• Drove social media subscribers from less than 40,000 to over 140,000.• Developed new programming.• Project managed all in-house videos.• Developed fun and engaging social media campaigns.• Designed 2D & 3D motion graphics. • Wrote and developed national and global television commercials. • Created licensing videos for Animal Jam toys that are showcased on major retail websites. • Bought and trafficked national and international TVCs.

Salt Lake City, Utah

• Handling day to day operations from a back of house position. • Constantly surpassed industry standard metrics for inventory and shrink.• Focusing on team morale and innovation.

Cupertino, California

• Participated in prestigious corporate Career Experience in video production at Apple Inc. • Edited internal training videos and helped develop a new and efficient DIT pipeline for the studio.

La, New York, And Utah

• On-set DIT work on independent movies, national commercials, TV shows.• Ingested footage, checksum verification, applying a first light for the DP and director, transcoding footage for editorial, and delivering the digital intermediate. • Participated in showcasing the technology at trade shows.

Salt Lake City, Utah

• Assisted in editing a full-length stop-motion animated film.• On-set Final Cut Pro expert. Managed and distributed all transcoded and raw data throughout the pipeline.

Salt Lake City, Utah

• Facilitated One to One and group training on Apple software.• Developed custom curriculums for novice and professional clients. • Mentored and developed new hires with a proven track record of creating leaders.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Developed marketing and promotions for various radio stations and their clients. • Produced live and remote radio broadcasts.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Film Studies

Associate'S Degree, General Studies