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San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

•Feature documentary in development working with low income, underserved people of color living in Potrero Hill Public Housing. •Teaching and empowering a cohort of low income public housing residents to learn storytelling and filmmaking to capture and share their own stories of resilience.•Secured a $75k grant to support teach and current production.•Filming with underserved people of color living at the poverty line to highlight resilience building and expose systemic injustices in public housing.

San Francisco Bay Area

A movement to reinvent our social fabric focused on Basic Income. Our vision is to create positive societal transformation by taking action to correct the injustices of poverty, income inequality, enslavement to work and other related ails of modern society. The basic income solution is neither left nor right. It's forward.•Partnered with the Andrew Yang 2020 presidential campaign to deploy the film and impact toolkit in Iowa and with grassroots organizers across the country to educate voters about a world with Basic Income.•Created a Documentary about Mincome, a community organizing toolkit & card game to engage people and spur the movement for a more just world. 2015 - present (bigexperience.org)•Film premiered at BIG Sky film festival 2019 and was also shown in the NYDoc, Social Justice and other festivals around the world.•Directed, produced and led a team of filmmakers to tell a modern day story of economic equality through the lens of the Basic Income social justice movement. •Directed and led a 9 month grass roots initiative to design, create and deploy community organizing tools including a card game and tool kit for organizing and activating activists around the country.•Raised over $50k of private funding to finance the film•Engineered a social impact campaign. Built and deployed community organizing tools, including a UBI card game to launch a nationwide movement for UBI.

San Francisco

Economic inequality, homelessness, gentrification and discrimination are major issues of our time. We believe that the best place to start is by addressing poverty directly and eliminating homelessness - by implementing both a viable short-term solution as well as working simultaneously towards sustainable, long-term systems.The following projects each offer a unique approach to solving these problems by focussing on story telling, community engagement and effective altruism.

San Francisco Bay Area

Story Code (http://storycode.org/) is a monthly show-n-tell of great storytelling done through new platforms. It exists at the intersection of filmmaking, technology and interactive storytelling.StoryCode started in NYC a year ago and since has launched chapters in DC, Paris, LA and now SF (https://www.facebook.com/StoryCodeSF). Each month StoryCode presents an interactive storyteller who describes their work for about 30 minutes with QA afterwards. Focus is on techniques for using new platforms, understanding audience needs, testing, and overall vision for how new platforms and story can mesh. Story Code chapters record these talks for posterity, with the idea of creating a global repository of new media storytelling techniques. (see: http://storycode.org/case_studies). StoryCodeSF is held at the Tides Theater in Union Square.

San Francisco Bay Area

Creating, developing and building an interactive film based platform for revolutionizing education in the 21st century.Our vision for EPS is to create media that bridges the gap between science and education by creating a film/ game hybrid that connects expert scientists with high school and elementary students.As creative director and co-founder Ken's role has been to research, strategize, create, test and develop the core business idea to create a product that teachers want to incorporate into their lesson plans and inspires students through interaction.As filmmaker Ken's role has been to develop story lines and screen plays that not only link the expert learnings of Bay Area scientists with the lesson plans of Bay Area STEAM teachers but also to create content that captivates and engages students through the use of interactive gaming and cinematic content.

San Francisco Bay Area

Creative strategy, innovation & entrepreneurial development, consumer research & insights and creative direction- Microsoft Stores services renaming: named & positioned services for all the Microsoft Stores- eBay Motors documentaries: Directed, shot & edited a 6 part dealer documentary film series- eBay local product launch & positioning: Researched, branded and positioned eBay's new local service

Engineer products from recycled materials.- Prototype designs and create products using only sustainable materials.- Organize production with local industry to scale the business- Develop a marketing strategy to roll the products out in the Bay Area

Developed a brand strategy blueprint for Hunter's Point Family.- Develop positioning to direct brand identity and key messaging to help the organization to attract new donors.- Conduct research, brainstorms and competitive audit.Developed positioning and messaging for the Transgender Law Center

You're Looking At Me is a documentary film about Alzheimer's Disease.- I have been collaborating with the director, producer and cinematographer on story line, production, marketing and editing.- This has also been an amazing experience to spend time with Alzheimer's patients and better understand and spread awareness about the disease.

Organizing and executing a nationwide marketing plan to release Scientific Learning's new BrainSPARK product.- Develop marketing, PR and design briefs. - Executed a plan to schools & collaborate with schools to facilitate cognitive development for children 6 to 13- Directing the development of web promotions, training staff, reaching bloggers and creating a film cut from the neurological team's upcoming PBS release.

Qualitative research & anthropology have honed my skills at telling stories through film. - TBT creates highly polished creative films for non-profits and high profile businesses.- Write, create, direct, produce and edit films. - I created an award winning short and a documentary for Habitat For Humanity. - I produced, directed and edited over 40 short films for TBWA/Chiat/Day, Goodby Silverstein & Butler, Shine. These cultural pieces and short ethnographic films have provided insights necessary for understanding consumer behavior and have led to a variety of new business wins.- I have written a variety of screenplays. I have over 5 years of experience editing on Final Cut Pro. I have worked with industry experts who have taught me sound, lighting and cinematography. I wrote a screenplay and directed my 12 person crew during the high-pressure 48 hour film festival.

Clients: MINI Cooper, Take Care Health, Epson, DRx, Lucas Arts, Greyhound, Columbia, Sagatiba- Core Skills: Consumer analysis & behavioral research. Developed strategic recommendations & insight. Inspired creativity. - Conducted extensive in-home research to improve DRx’s web development and interactive strategy. Provided insights derived from user experience project that helped engineer a smarter, better developed website. Created venture capital pitch film. - Researched and synthesized learnings to provided insights and strategic recommendations enabling MINI to evolve their brand. Strategized to develop MINI’s award winning Car Fun Footprint campaign challenging automotive convention and increasing sales by 32%.- Nurse Practitioner research – discovered attitudes & trends to build TCHS’s brand. Uncovered insights, developed strategic recommendations and produced respondent films based on extensive research with nurse practitioners. Produced insights to win the TCHS pitch and inspired 2008 brand campaign creative work.- Facilitated Sagatiba’s release of their Brazilian spirit in the US market. Analyzed specific individual behaviors and social trends to categorize drinkers into typologies to drive demographic and psychographic targeting. Created analysis & a brand manual. - Developed pitch insights and strategic recommendations to successfully win Epson, Take Care Health & Columbia accounts.- Created Cutting Edge newsletter and blogged for InfluxInsights to maintain a pulse on emerging trends.

Clients: Comcast (Video OnDemand, High Speed Internet, WWE), RollingRock- Developed strategic recommendations to steer creative advertising solutions for Comcast’s 2007 Video OnDemand brand campaign. Conducted qualitative research and analyzed findings to present to Comcast with topline research findings. Successfully re-branding Comcast Video OnDemand as Channel 1.- Aided in planning and research for award winning Slowsky campaign. Conducted a quantitative study to research the best advertising solutions for Comcast’s upload speed initiative. Campaign was recognized for enabling Comcast Cable Internet to communicate clear advantages over AT&T DSL.- Produced consumer insights derived from qualitative research to inform best practices and strategic advice for the newly emerging high definition television market & Comcast’s HD awareness campaign.- Derived insights from shop-alongs & street interviews determining consumer psychology and attitudes to win Rolling Rock pitch.- Engineered & implemented a WWE & Comcast brief for creatives to yield WWE /Comcast outdoor advertising.

Strategy/ Finance/ Broadcast: Adidas, Ask, FOX, Stars, Mondavi (pitch), Viral Marketing- Created viral & guerilla strategy aimed at enhancing adidas interactive campaigns.- Provided marketing analysis for the adidas / Reebok merger and recommended an advertising strategy.

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