🌍 Creative Technologist with Global Reach: Delivered high-impact projects across the U.S., Australia, and Spain, bringing innovative solutions to diverse creative and technical landscapes.🎨 Generative AI Art Expertise: Produced captivating, AI-driven visual art that pushes creative boundaries and engages audiences on a new level.🎬 Video Production & Editing: Directed and edited compelling videos, blending storytelling with technical finesse to create high-quality visual experiences.💻 Advanced Web Development Skills: Developed robust, dynamic websites with seamless user experiences that merge functionality and design.💡 Consulting for Innovation: Partnered with teams and clients to elevate their projects, leveraging the latest in tech to deliver visually stunning, cutting-edge results.🏆 Dedicated to Excellence: Committed to delivering quality work that resonates deeply with audiences, ensuring every project integrates creativity with purpose.

🎥 Post Production Lead: Spearheaded the entire post-production process for a high-profile, press-facing Home Depot event at Hartmann Studios.🧑‍Team Leadership: Managed a talented team of 3 editors and 1 graphic artist, ensuring every member contributed seamlessly to meet top industry standards.🤝 Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinated closely with production and producers, aligning creative vision and technical precision for a flawless execution.📈 Ahead of Schedule Delivery: Delivered 8 high-quality videos ahead of schedule, showcasing a commitment to efficiency and excellence.🌟 Client Success: Achieved resounding success with overwhelmingly positive client feedback, directly impacting the event’s overall impact and reputation.

🏛️ Consultant & Developer: Rejoined the University of Melbourne’s Research Unit for Indigenous Arts and Cultures to elevate the 'Discovery' ethnomusicological archive.🔗 Innovative System Upgrades: Implemented 4 essential upgrades, including an advanced method for linking cultural records across song, dance, places, and languages.🌍 Global Impact: Expanded ‘Discovery’ to empower communities in Australia, Uganda, South Africa, and Canada, broadening access to cultural knowledge worldwide.📲 Enhanced Accessibility: Transformed the app’s capacity to connect cultural data, enabling a more cohesive and dynamic approach to Indigenous knowledge preservation.💡 Legacy of Empowerment: Continued to support Indigenous communities by fostering a sustainable, accessible platform that preserves and celebrates cultural heritage.

🌏 Pioneering Community Technologist: Led the creation of the "Discovery" project at the University of Melbourne’s RUIAC, redefining cultural data management through ethnomusicology.🎶 Innovative Cultural Database: Developed a transformative system to link cultural knowledge—song, dance, language, places, and events—from an Indigenous perspective.👥 Collaborative Leadership: Partnered with Indigenous communities across Australia, Uganda, South Africa, and Canada, guiding the project from initial concept to full deployment.🛠️ Comprehensive Project Oversight: Led every phase—brainstorming, design, development, coding, and UI design—ensuring the system’s adaptability to community needs.📸 Documenting Cultural Moments: Captured RUIAC’s opening ceremony, creating a visual archive to complement the database, highlighting cultural leaders and their heritage.🌍 Global Impact: Extended project reach to the Kimberly, Derby, and Pilbara regions and formed partnerships in South Africa and Uganda, fostering community-driven preservation.🚀 Advanced Capabilities: Enhanced the database with robust linking and contextualization features, ensuring it adapts and remains relevant to evolving cultural contexts.💡 Empowering Local Communities: Collaborated on tools for cultural engagement, bridging technology and heritage to support community-led preservation efforts.

🛠️ Foundation Builder for "Discovery": Laid the groundwork for the University of Melbourne's "Discovery" project, shaping it into a pivotal cultural preservation tool.🌏 Ethnomusicology & Preservation: Collaborated with RUIAC and a team of ethnomusicologists to preserve and revitalize Aboriginal song and dance across Northern and Western Australia.🤝 Community-Focused Approach: Engaged closely with Indigenous communities to ensure cultural knowledge was documented, linked, and accessible through a responsive digital platform.💡 Shaping the Role of Community Technologist: Established the role’s direction, creating the foundation for a digital system centered on community needs and Indigenous perspectives.📚 Early Stages of the "Discovery" Song Database: Guided the initial development of a system that prioritizes cultural integrity and accessibility for Indigenous communities.🌐 Pioneering Technology in Cultural Preservation: Supported RUIAC’s launch, demonstrating the potential of technology in the preservation and revitalization of cultural heritage.

📸 Empowered Artists Through Photography: Designed and led photography and multimedia classes, encouraging participants to document life in Melbourne through a documentary lens.🏙️ Explored Melbourne's Vibrant Culture: Organized city field trips, enabling artists to capture the bustling local culture and happenings.🖼️ Curated Community Galleries: Showcased participants’ creative work in curated galleries, celebrating their unique perspectives and talents with the community.🎨 Co-Founded the Art Life Coloring Book: Created an annual publication celebrating diversity and artistic expression through drawing, promoting inclusivity in the arts.📚 Fostered Cultural Conversations: Used the coloring book as a platform to highlight diversity, sparking broader discussions about inclusivity and representation.🌟 Championed Accessible Creativity: Developed high-quality, inclusive creative programs that amplified the voices and visions of adult artists with disabilities.

💻 Revolutionized Studio Workflows: Developed and managed digital asset management systems, streamlining workflows across departments at Nickelodeon Animation Studio.📂 Launched Nickelodeon’s Digital Archive: Spearheaded the studio’s first-ever centralized system for organizing, storing, and retrieving thousands of digital assets, benefiting 500+ employees.🎥 Engineered Post-Production Systems: Built and maintained retakes and visual effects systems, ensuring content consistently met Nickelodeon’s high production standards.👩‍🎓 Transformed the Nickelodeon Internship Program: Oversaw 100+ interns annually, with 90% transitioning to full-time roles at top studios, earning recognition as a Top-10 U.S. Internship Program for 3 years.🎨 Co-Founded Let’s Draw: Connected Nick Artists with local elementary students for weekly drawing sessions, bringing arts education to under-resourced schools.🏆 Awarded the Golden Oak Award: Honored by the Burbank Unified School District for impactful contributions to arts outreach and education.

💼 Co-Founded Nickelodeon’s Digital Operations Department: Spearheaded the creation of a transformative department that revolutionized the studio’s workflows.🎨 Introduced Wacom Drawing Tablets: Championed their adoption, modernizing artistic processes and driving creative efficiency.📊 Developed FileMaker Pro Systems: Designed centralized systems that streamlined operations across multiple teams.📈 Scaled from 50 to 500 Users: Overhauled workflows to support studio growth, benefiting over 500 professionals.🚀 Optimized Post-Production Pipelines: Led initiatives that modernized production processes, ensuring seamless and efficient output.

🎥 Assistant CG Animator at Nickelodeon’s Nick Digital: Played a pivotal role in revolutionizing department workflows with innovative systems.📂 Created the Nick Digital Database: Designed a FileMaker Pro system that centralized collaboration for post-production, improving efficiency across projects.🎬 Supported Iconic Shows: Worked on beloved series like SpongeBob SquarePants, Ni Hao Kai-Lan, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and El Tigre.📋 Streamlined Retake Processes: Partnered with directors and supervisors to track and relay retake notes, optimizing communication and delivery timelines.🏗️ Built a Lasting Foundation: Established workflows that significantly enhanced productivity and remain integral to the department's operations today.

🎥 Early Career at Nick Digital: Began my journey at Nickelodeon with a commitment to innovation and excellence in post-production.📂 Developed the Nick Digital Database: Self-taught FileMaker Pro during weekends and evenings to create a system that transformed workflows across the department.🎬 Supported Iconic Shows: Contributed to the success of SpongeBob SquarePants, Ni Hao Kai-Lan, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and El Tigre.📈 Scalable Impact: The database I built scaled to manage over 20 shows and 1,000 episodes, now used for tens of thousands of episodes.💡 Dedication Rewarded: My initiative and results earned me a promotion after just one year, launching my next chapter at Nickelodeon.

🎥 Curated SIGGRAPH Retrospective: Led a 30-year retrospective of historic computer graphics works (1976–2006) for the Computer Animation Festival.📂 Archival Excellence: Selected 30 landmark CG clips from over 2,000 in the SIGGRAPH Video Review Archive, crafting a compelling visual narrative.👩‍🎓 Mentorship: Directed a team of 3 student volunteers in screening, research, and interviews, fostering their growth while achieving project goals.🌟 Volunteer Coordinator: Managed festival screenings and ensured an outstanding volunteer experience, selecting top performers for key conference roles.🌐 SIGGRAPH Beginnings: Started as a Student Volunteer, assisting over 100 international participants with check-ins and ushering, setting the foundation for a dedicated leadership journey.🖥️ Digital Contributions: Supported the 2007 Computer Animation Festival website and special projects, blending technical and creative expertise.

🎥 Cinematography Excellence: Captured dynamic visuals that set the foundation for compelling multimedia projects, delivering high-quality results for diverse clients.✂️ Creative Editing: Assembled engaging video content that told powerful stories, blending technical precision with a flair for visual storytelling.🎨 Seamless Compositing: Integrated multiple elements in post-production, creating polished and visually captivating final products.🤝 Collaborative Innovation: Partnered with teams to bring innovative ideas to life, ensuring each project was a seamless blend of creativity and technical skill.🌟 Technical Mastery: Leveraged advanced tools and techniques to meet the unique demands of every project, refining my craft in multimedia production.

🎬 Founder of A/V Department: Established and led the audio/video department, creating multimedia content for K-12 online education with a focus on quality and innovation.🎙 Expert Audio Production: Recorded, edited, and managed thousands of audio files and scripts, ensuring clarity and engagement in educational materials.🎭 Creative Direction for Voice Talent: Directed child voice actors in the recording studio, capturing authentic performances that elevated the e-learning experience.📂 Workflow Innovator: Designed and implemented efficient production workflows, blending technical precision with creative leadership to streamline processes.🌟 Impactful Content Creation: Produced engaging multimedia that enriched online educational platforms, combining storytelling with technical expertise for maximum impact.

📜 Historic Transition: Witnessed and contributed to a 120-year-old document and map management system's evolution into a cutting-edge GPS and GIS platform in 2003.🛠 Exposure to Engineering: Gained hands-on experience with civil engineering and infrastructure systems, providing valuable insights into real-world applications.📊 Database & GIS Systems: Introduced to database and geographic information systems, building foundational skills in digital transformation and spatial data management.🚀 Pioneering Digital Transformation: Played a role in driving a historic organization's shift to digital processes, setting the stage for innovation and modernization.🎓 Lifelong Impact: The experience became a pivotal learning opportunity, shaping my career and passion for leveraging technology to transform industries.