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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 data for production tracking, headcount, finance and vendor data• 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 scheduling across a 5-year production timeline• 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