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• Collaborated with productions and stakeholders from cross-functional departments (HR, Recruiting, Finance, Animation Technology) to streamline data sourcing processes, increasing accuracy and efficiency in centralizing.
• Automated data cleaning, organization, merging and standardization processes using Python scripts, resulting in a 90% increase in workflow efficiency
• Utilized Python, Tableau and Excel to create new headcount forecasting and production planning tools, increasing forecast accuracy by 25% and enabling more data-driven decisions to be made on space planning and crew.
• Created and maintained interactive dashboards in Tableau for easy exploration of studio data and to perform quick ad hoc analyses for executives
• Developed automated KPI reporting tools in Tableau to generate monthly executive summary PDF reports that visualize and provide insights on centralized studio data

• Aggregated and cleaned headcount, show delivery and finance data from 50+ different productions using Excel, creating centralized sources of information for more accurate analysis of reporting for executive review
• Reviewed deal term sheets, payment schedules, budgets and actuals of vendor finances across multiple productions to create detailed comparison sheets for executives
• Identified and resolved data discrepancies across various documents and spreadsheets to ensure the accuracy and currency of data

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Procedurally designing an automatic bridge generator tool based on terrain point data for VR environments
• Building and importing Houdini Digital Assets into Unreal Engine for VR environment creation.
• Implementing VEX expression language to create more efficient tool development workflow

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Joined the BioSCAN research initiative, focusing on investigating the biodiversity in LA and discovering new insect species
• Identified and classified insect specimens into taxonomic families using a light microscope and analyzed proportion of species per sample
• Communicated and informed museum guests about on-going BioSCAN research during live lab sessions