Teaching CTIN 457 within USC's School of Cinematic Arts; focused on experiential/themed entertainment business operations and project delivery.

Helping clients develop the next generation of physical and digital experiences.

Envisioned and delivered physical and digital interactive experiences in the built environment that tell Google’s stories to top customers, dignitaries, and VIPs all around the globe in high-end, content-rich, experiential conference and hospitality spaces.Program managed portfolio of projects end-to-end, from business case development through design, build, delivery, and operations turnover. Directly engaged executive-level stakeholders (VP and SVP) to build project briefs, review and act on feedback during design, and integrate teams for operations and turnover. Responsible for identifying and managing wide and disparate project stakeholders including sales, product groups, marketing, finance, legal, engineering, and operations teams.Created a centralized project management office from the ground up; creating, socializing, and enforcing project standards, measures, controls, gating, and communication. Developed, tracked, and communicated project success measures that integrated scope, schedule, budget, risk, and stakeholder happiness. Identified and resourced PMO team members. Led sourcing, contracting, and management of project teams and centralized PMO office resources.Responsible for cost, schedule, and stakeholder engagement for Experience Studio’s $100M+ design-build project portfolio concurrently spanning multiple continents, project types, and stakeholders.

Led all aspects of design and development for assigned experience center and interactive exhibit projects. Responsible for managing delivery through a wide range of stakeholders including sales, product groups, marketing, legal, engineering, and operations.Built and managed multidisciplinary project teams to craft and pitch creative guest experiences to solve business, strategy, and sales challenges. Identified and onboarded stakeholders, developed and socialized project charters, cast resources into design, production, and technology roles. Defined deliverable and project management structure, drafted contracts with legal team and managed project financials. Responsible for collecting, synthesizing and executing on diverse, executive-level feedback.Drove impact and scale by leading internal business development for Experience Studio team; identified opportunities across Alphabet and Google, pitched services to cross-org leadership, defined and socialized engagement models, staffed projects, and managed cross-org relationships from initial socialization through delivery.

Designed and executed branded, interactive experiences to drive and monetize fan engagement for high-profile clients like professional sports leagues and arena-touring musicians. Defined product requirements and ensured alignment with business objectives and user experience goals. Developed creative concepts for sports team/league partners to leverage stadiums, media, and digital assets with restrictive rights, schedules, and budgets in mind. Led production on bespoke social platforms as well as mobile games with deep ties into live-sports scoring systems: new interactive experiences that were affected by live sport experiences. Managed team of designers and developers in the ideation and execution of location-based and web/mobile interactive experiences. Reported directly to CEO and was responsible for company’s product roadmap and delivery. Built and directly managed a team of 18 to handle all creative and product deliverables. Identified needed roles, hired, and structured team into a nimble creative organization. Restructured organization around agile delivery; instituted scrum in creative process, built workable backlogs, and identified experts to educate the team on best practices around design and creative asset delivery to engineering organization.

Created seamless interactive experiences with evergreen stories that millions of guests can take part in, built on bleeding edge technology. Guided ideation of scope in tandem with functional Creative leadership; brainstormed with design teams, collaborated on pitch decks for senior management and sponsor approval, and developed work plans for mockups. Responsible for managing relationship and expectations for both project teams and operating partners.Led the technical development of interactive projects with particular expertise in interactive software and custom hardware systems. Managed end technical resources to fulfill technology development needs: directed internal tech staff to build out software and hardware. Managed vendors in executing contracted scope requirements.Served as hub of communication for show system disciplines: show control, AV, lighting, software and hardware. Managed wide range of software specialties: web, game development, backend sustainment systems. Led hardware development vendors: custom electronics development, server build out, and facilities infrastructure contractors. .End-to-end experience from scope creation to in-field attraction turn over.