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Founded Buendea, a company focused on immersive real-time simulation, training, and education. Leading development on NASA's XR Operations Support System (XOSS) a collaboration with NASA Advanced Operations Concept Lab to produce a multi-user XR training environment for a future missions to the Moon, Mars, Low Earth Orbit. Developed XR training simulations for NASA CHAPEA project, a one year simulation with subjects living in a 3D-printed habitat at JSC as well as Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) Habitat. Integration with human performance and biometric data capture in XR environments through Human Physiology, Performance, Protection & Operations Laboratory (H3-PO) and Assessments of Physiology and Cognition in Hybrid-reality Environments (APACHE). From 2018-2022, served as a strategist for Parley for the Oceans, an eco-innovation group focused on solutions for ocean protection. Led development on Parley Ocean Education platform, an open-source platform providing courses on a variety of ocean-related conservation topics. From 2013-2018 was Director of FMG Labs, a team dedicated to immersive and innovative content creation under the Univison company umbrella. During the time there, directed the development of NASA’s interactive VR project, Mars 2030. The project was a four-year partnership with the organization, consolidating scientific data to create a vision for a future mission to the Red Planet using Unreal Engine. Prior to that formed part of Fusion’s Digital and Interactive teams, producing original video, interactive and editorial content on science and technology. Was awarded Folio's 30 Under 30 Award in 2015. Work has been featured as official selections at SXSW, Tribeca, Geneva Film Festival, Tech Day on Capitol Hill, Nvidia GPU Technology Conference, and Siggraph.

Listed skills include Virtual Reality, Unreal Engine, Oculus Rift, Os X, and 45 others.