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Salt Lake City, Utah, US

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

• Owner and operator of business providing visual effects (VFX) and motion graphics work for client videos
• Balance projects for multiple corporate and individual clients while meeting competing deadlines
• Collaborate with client management regarding delivery timelines, reasonable expectations, and potential setbacks for optimal outcomes
• VFX Supervisor on viral videos including ads for Harmon Brothers (Camp Chef Woodwind) and Working With Lemons (“Let it Go” cover with over 304 million views on YouTube)
• Other projects include Purple (164 million views), Studio C (over 2.6 million view), Fiber Fix (2.5 million views), Squatty Potty Unicorn Gold, IBM, Yours.co, Ford Mustang, Zerorez, Lindsey Stirling’s Transcendence.

Lehi, Utah, US

• Responsible for developing brand new mobile automation framework to handle company mobile applications. Interfaced with third party vendors to assess how to integrate this framework in a CI/CD environment. Identified.
• Designed and built automation testing framework from the ground up utilizing industry-standard tools and methods tuned to the organization's needs
• Documented framework for use by other engineers

Boston, MA, US

• Responsible for developing automated tests and executing manual test plans. Developed additional tools for test data creation to ensure quality in a fraction of the time.
• Led team for Mozy account migration QA with seamless customer transition from Mozy to Carbonite, generating over $35 million in revenue for the organization.
• Developed testing tool for automated rapid bulk account creation to evaluate all likely scenarios for Mozy project; tool was widely adopted by those on the project.
• Documented physical data center configuration for consolidation during a move, resulting in reduced downtime and garnered public praise from corporate leadership.
• Provided detailed defect tickets to developers, resulting in faster-than-average triage and fix deployment.

• Responsible for developing, maintaining, and upgrading artifact management automation tools. Worked with project supervisors and artists to ensure automation tools met technical requirements and provided a seamless.
• Led team converting artifact management system to function across multiple platforms; enabled users to upgrade to modern workstations, increasing productivity.
• Managed distributed process management system swap, resulting in faster artifact creation, more detailed status information, and more customization for technical needs.
• Provided guidance to junior engineers to develop additional software tools, increasing team output.
• Maintained pre-existing automation tools, preventing regression.
• Designed and implemented automation to create localized and internationalized versions of branded graphics, exponentially reducing time taken to produce.

• Accountable to supervisors for shots and motion graphics pieces, meeting deadlines under budget
• Use NukeX, Mocha Pro, and other tools to composite shots
• Own creation of over 100 language-specific end-slates for LDS Church’s official brand in multiple colors (8,000+ total)

• Rotoscoping and matte creation in Adobe After Effects and Mocha Pro
• Object removal
• Compositing greenscreen, CG elements, background plates

Orem, UT, US

• Recruited specifically by university to teach brand-new Intro to Motion Graphics course
• Developed curriculum from scratch per request from faculty
• Taught and assisted students in learning process to achieve proficiency in subject matter, currently maintain communication as mentor to some
• Multiple students pivoted career to course matter following the course

• Communicated via phone and in person with customers concerning options and timelines
• Managed and tracked high value inventory to and from vault daily
• Trained new employees on many company procedures

Orem, Utah, US

• Assured that customers had received product and are satisfied
• Invoiced and collected on customer orders
• Managed, owned, and delivered two full video training series (from pre-production through post-production, including motion graphics) on accelerated timelines for international client with 10,000+ employees

• Preparing our product (labels for pill supplements, health drinks, chapstick, etc.) for shipment the next morning.
• Quality Assurance on said labels before shipping them out.I took a two-year break to serve as an LDS missionary in Kobe, Japan, so the time period is a little misleading. I was immediately hired back on when I returned.

Ran register, packed food, cleaned.

Bs, Digital Media - Cinema Creation

Bachelor'S Degree, Digital Media