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Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles County, California, United States

Obtain competitive numbers from third party vendors throughout pre-production bidding to lay out the department budget• Oversee the development, implementation, and execution of streamlined workflows for the transfer of dailies to the dailies house for processing DNX files for Editorial, the approval of source music and score, the approval process of any required VFX shots in the show, as well as outline a turnover guide document for Editorial for the entirety of the Post Production pipeline• Create an extensive Post Production schedule that tracks the timeline of the project from principal photograph, dailies, last day of dailies, cuts, locked cut dates, spotting sessions, mixes and playbacks, and delivery of final deliverables for the project• Supervise both the Post and Editorial departments in off-line edit through dailies, cuts, outputs, and turnovers to picture, sound, music, and VFX, ADR, Mix and Playback to maintain efficiency and meet deadline goals• Monitor the on-line edit through titles, credit builds, color correction, VFX drop-ins, dubs, delivery, QC, and captioning• Proactively communicate between the Studio/Network Executives along with the Post Producer to ensure the department is meeting scheduled deadlines and notify changes within the schedule to relevant department heads, track milestones, and goals regarding delivery and budget• Facilitate the smooth approval process of hundreds of VFX shots through meticulous tracking, and the required network and studio deliverables with exceptional digital asset management• Generate purchase orders for department purchases and costs, ie. (hard drives, stock footage, work orders from 3rd party vendors, Evercast, Avid rentals, etc.), archive final invoices and receipts, manage and analyze cost reports for the department

Burbank, California, United States

Burbank, California, United States

• Delegate design assignments to creative artists and regularly monitor the completion of digital assets from conception to final color via notes and retakes prior to asset shipment for animation at overseas animation studios• Constructed and developed a successful method of tracking digital production assets via Shotgrid between Designers and Production which allowed accurate and timely completion of assets required for Production to ship overseas before animation• Supervise animatic spotting calls to call out digital assets required for production, ie. props, backgrounds, characters, effects, and graphics

Burbank, California, United States

Burbank, California, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

Woodland Hills, California

• Animated original 3D transitional element in Maya for Valentine’s Day promotional content• Learned essential video editing skills such as mask tracking and chroma/color keying in Adobe Premiere Pro/Adobe After Effects to edit promotional material in their post-production stage• Created an introductory tutorial on how to use Adobe Character Animate for potential future use on animating character assets• Performed quality assurance duties by analyzing and reviewing video files for shows to be broadcasted by Video on Demand partners• Attended and contributed to post-production and other video-editing meetings by sharing concepts and solutions to promote extra and new viewers

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Assisted professors during 2D/3D course lectures and provided technical support to students• Manipulated and edited Bézier curves in studio DitoGear motion control GUI to set up camera angle and position for students’ compositions• Supervised stop-motion lab and helped set up stage lighting for stop-motion hot sets

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics And Special Effects

Activities and Societies: Gravitas

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Interact Service Club