The Peak Beyond is a retail technology company that creates shopping solutions that utilize interactive marketing to engage consumers, increase product knowledge, and drive sales. The company offers two products paired with their object recognition technology—the Smart Shopping Display and the Interactive Marketing Display.The Peak Beyond’s products are paired with accompanying software that provide businesses with product and consumer behavioral data. When a shopper picks up a product that is connected to a display, the screen intuitively reacts, offer the shopper all of the relevant product information. Users can navigate the display’s simple, intuitive interface to obtain additional product information, learn about in-store specials, and more. The company’s products are currently displayed in cannabis dispensaries throughout the country. In addition to cannabis, The Peak Beyond’s technology is compatible at a variety of different retail stores including wine and beer, coffee, fashion, and more.

- Worked as an NVC coach and practitioner in a variety of contexts, listed below.Nonviolent Communication is an approach to nonviolent living. NVC theory supposes all human behavior stems from attempts to meet universal human needs. The needs are never in conflict. Rather, conflict arises when strategies for meeting needs clash. NVC proposes people identify shared needs, revealed by the thoughts and feelings surrounding these needs, and collaborate to develop strategies and make requests of each other to meet each other's needs.- Co-taught Nonviolent Communication at San Quentin State Prison to inmates serving a life sentence.- Co-taught a weekly class at The Center SF which facilitates practicing empathy. - Worked with clients as a counselor, communication trainer and conflict mediator by identifying what feelings and needs he/she has and finding great ways of expressing them to others.

• Head of production, and manager of the music video department consisting of between 10 and 15 staff members around the world.• Creative Director of Playboy Music, a new music discovery app geared at Playboy’s recent rebranding.• Has helped grow the company from its infancy to become recognized as one of the top 100 media companies to watch (AlwaysOn) by steering the company’s content creation and overseeing projects from pre-production through post-production.• Works with client companies such as Google, YouTube, Jambox and Playboy to create specialized products and brand promotion through music video and documentary content.• Helped develop a digital signage product for one of the world's largest food markets in Mexico City. Served as an associate creative director, and helped build an aggressive marketing campaign.• Directs live broadcasts of music performances reaching up to hundreds of thousands of people for companies like Google and YouTube.• Produces, Directs and DPs major events around the world with budgets up to $250,000. • Has produced, directed and edited hundreds of live music performance videos.• Earned the company several millions of views on YouTube and other streaming platforms.

• Supervised operations of campus photography equipment lab, and gained working knowledge of a wide variety of film, photo, lighting, and sound equipment.• Assisted with rental equipment, mixing of chemicals and dark room procedures. • Performed ten hours per week while attending university classes, as a federal work-study position.

• Worked as a production assistant, operating set lights and completing general tasks.• Gained a working knowledge of professional music video productions.• Video to be used as an extra for the DVD of the recent film 21.

• Collaborated with Joanna Went, a historically important feminist performance artist, for her play Ablutions of a Nefarious Nature (2007).• Operated the spot light during three performances at Gallery 16 in Los Angeles.• Gained a working knowledge of lighting design for live performances, and for working in cooperation with a performance artist.

• Worked closely with director, producer, editors and assistants for the Arts and Entertainment Channel documentary Real Premonitions.• Managed, researched and planned for on-location shoots around the world. • Gained working knowledge of film production for major film and television companies.

• Pitched Talent Retreat to celebrities during events: 6th Annual BET Awards, Teen Choice 2006.• Supervised visits to and escorted celebrities in Talent Retreat.

• Managed domestic grass-roots promotional campaigns for major motion pictures (including Premonition, Running with Scissors, The Covenant,and Crossover).• Worked closely with executives, providing administrative support and research.• Worked talent handling for Red Carpet premieres.• Gained a working knowledge of creative advertising, publicity, promotions and media.

• Led and supervised classes of karate students ranging from four year-old children to seventy year-old adults.• Helped prepare large teams for an international competition in Tokyo, Japan.