• Building portable immersive audio systems, developing spatial audio composition tools, creating immersive audio experiences for science communication and public outreach• Sponsored by the Center for Cellular Construction, an NSF funded Science & Technology Center, as part of an arts and science collaborative initiative• Currently working with scientists at the Center for Cellular Construction, IBM Research, and San Francisco State University’s Estuary and Ocean Science Center

• Built and managed Spatial's Creative Group, a team of sound designers who created audio content and implemented technical solutions for immersive audio installations.• Product Lead for Spatial's "Studio" authoring tool for immersive audio. Worked closely with platform and application engineers as a designer and co-developer of product functionality and UI/UX.• Main creator of algorithmic extensions of authoring capabilities which were integral to all demonstrations and installations of the Spatial system. Developed algorithmic timing, transitions, placement and orchestration of immersive audio objects; sequencing and triggering of spatialized audio via proximity, dayparting, external triggers, randomness and conditional behaviors. Built articulated animated characters constructed of sound sources. Integrated immersive audio with projected video.• Content development manager for immersive installations such as the Everest exhibit at the National Geographic Museum in Washington DC, private residences, Health and Wellness prototypes, SXSW. • Technical development of immersive scenes for creative partners Meow Wolf, Made Music Studio, Nightscape.• Named contributor to 2 patents for spatialized audio.

• Key role in designing and building a software platform for applying machine learning to images, video and documents, while positioning and growing this startup into a Google Cloud AI solution partner. Product allows customers to find and organize unstructured assets in visual archives and extract metadata for business intelligence.• Customized and configured UI/UX to address specific needs of customers and market verticals. Developed and demonstrated product solutions that were instrumental in acquiring funding and bringing in large M&E studios as clients. Worked closely with machine learning engineers to get maximum benefit from analyses and push that forward to customers. Represented company and product in trade shows and sales calls, often together with Google Professional Services. • Also, because we were a startup, created marketing materials, presentations, product documentation, and website content. Performed recruiting and interviewing, produced video demos, built our Google partnerships, managed Engineering. Trained 3rd party sales teams, client administrators and employees.

• Designed production pipelines, wrote software and managed teams processing facial performance capture data for "Guardians of the Galaxy", "Avengers: Age of Ultron", 8 other major motion pictures.

• Critical role in building company from technical proof of concept, to startup, to service organization providing high-fidelity facial performance capture. Co-inventor of optical capture system, designed and developed procedures and software for production pipeline. Facial performance capture for "Gravity", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", 12 other major motion pictures.

• Managed the development of core graphics software and animation pipeline software during the production of "Shrek", "Antz", and during PDI's transition from a commercial VFX production house to a feature animation studio owned by DreamWorks. Facilitated Motion Picture Academy Technical Achievement Awards for the PDI Animation System and the facial animation system used in "Shrek".

• Lead developer, designer of image processing effects for "Pandemonium" & other products.• Directed a team of FX artists creating product features.

• Won Primetime Emmy Award for animated opening of MTV's "Liquid Television".• Created animated organic image processing for commercials, film and broadcast television.• Work won awards from the Broadcast Designers' Association, Imagina, the National Computer Graphics Association, and Prix Ars Electronica.• Co-produced "Wet Science", award-winning animation short in permanent collections of Siggraph and Pompidou Center.