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Actively engaged in consulting projects serving cross-industry clients in technology, non-profit, and media industries. Advise start-up and turnaround organizations with fast, high-impact decision-making. Project activities include business plan writing, competitive research and analysis, business model transformation, branding, marketing strategy, geographic expansion, scaling and diversification, content creation and acquisition strategy, and fundraising.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Responsible for building XL8’s sales organization in the Americas by heading sales, strategy, and marketing for XL8, a Silicon Valley tech start-up company. XL8 pioneered the AI/machine translation revolution by creating the most human-like translation engine for media localization. It’s purpose-built, genre-specific engines are disrupting the localization business (e.g., subtitles, captions, synthesized dubbing) by enabling cost-effective products, services, and workflows with the best quality machine translations in the Media and conversational content space. XL8's products and services are being used by Media companies worldwide, including some of the largest and most prominent Language Service Providers.

Staines, Middlesex, Gb

Responsible for building Synamedia’s Hollywood studio and streaming platform business in North America, collaborating with marketing and engineering on the product position of their new SaaS product portfolio, and presenting quarterly updates on market strategy, trends, growth opportunities, and competitive research to the senior leadership, marketing, engineering, and sales teams.Synamedia, headquartered in the UK, is the largest global provider of video solutions for service providers and content owners and is trusted by over 200 video service providers to deliver, protect, and monetize video content in an increasingly IP world. Synamedia’s flexible incremental architecture provides a rapid, friction-free way to add, build and deploy cloud-based video services. Its award-winning portfolio also includes intelligence-led anti-piracy, advanced advertising, business analytics, broadband, and video network solutions and services. Synamedia’s technology is in 320 million active devices and protects $70 billion in revenue annually.

Burbank, California, Us

Set up the company’s Los Angeles office by registering the business in California, securing office space, and hiring resources. Responsible for business development, creating new consultancy services, overseeing a team of consultants and technicians, and guiding clients’ rapid transition to cloud technologies and infrastructure to support work-from-home operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.Convergent Risks, headquartered in the UK, is the leading provider of governance, risk, and compliance services for the media and entertainment sector and provides assurance to vendors and content owners that systems and applications for on-site, hybrid and cloud-native workflows are correctly configured to protect against security threats. Convergent has representation across EMEA, Asia Pacific, and the Americas.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Created/oversaw the Worldwide Content Protection program and developed/executed proactive strategies designed to secure the studio’s global content supply chain for film, TV broadcast/streaming, and games content. Strategies extended to all departments involved in the production, post-production, marketing, distribution, and archival of content and emerging technology. Responsibilities also included the following: • Provided advisement to business units to address workflow concerns and investigated content leaks within the supply chain to identify the cause and prevent future occurrence. Implemented processes to resolve content leaks, resulting in a 96% effectiveness rate in preventing recurrence.• Created/maintained studio Content Protection Policies & Procedures that accurately reflected the workflow and technologies in use.• Managed and assessed the risk of a portfolio of 2,000+ third party post-production vendors, production companies working on heightened security titles, Warner Bros. post-production facilities, and cloud-hosted technologies used within the supply chain that transform content. Vendors and technologies were assessed based on Motion Picture Association Best Practices for physical, digital, and management security controls and NIST 800-53, CIS Control framework, CSA Cloud Control Matrix, and GDPR (where applicable).• Developed remediation plans, recommended compensating controls, and validated completed remediation activities.

Burbank, Ca, Us

(See description under Director, Content Protection Operations)

Burbank, Ca, Us

Managed the undercover purchase program and litigation efforts, resulting in 110 lawsuits against sellers offering counterfeit goods on third-party marketplace sites. Created piracy trending reports on online hard goods sites for executive management and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to negotiate listing take-down compliance with China marketplace sites, which resulted in 5 major sites banning the sale of DVD products and an 87% reduction in infringing listings.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Managed vendor relationships for online hard goods and BitTorrent enforcement; evaluated free trial data; and negotiated vendor contracts for new services and renewals. Created PowerPoint presentations; edited legal documents; and scheduled meetings, events, and travel for an executive who traveled extensively throughout Latin America and Asia-Pacific regions.(Worked full time while finishing up MFA coursework and thesis)

Completed over 30 productions, including features, commercials, music videos, and short narratives (full list available upon request) in the following roles: Director of Photography, Gaffer, Key Grip, Chief Lighting Technician, Camera Operator, 1st Assistant Camera Operator, Writer, Producer, and Director.Two short narratives that I worked on as a Gaffer screened at the Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner in 2007 and one screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2008.

Presidents And Key Executives Mba (Pke Mba)

Master Of Fine Arts Candidate, Cinematography

B.A., Communications, Legal Institutions, Economics And Government (Cleg Program)