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Glendale, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Ownership of Design and Assets. • Ongoing periodic coverage of Shots.

Burbank, California, United States

Caped Crusader• Provided additional coverage of overlapping Story tasks: incidental selection, labeling, tracking. • Identified continuity concerns impacted by incidentals. Teamed up with Story PM and Episodic Director to routinely problem solve crowd heavy and action heavy shots.• Completed color workbooks.• Assisted in Exec approvals and clearance of designs.

Burbank, California, United States

ScoobyDoo & the Mystery Pups• Ownership of episodic deliveries for Design and Assets: workbooks, breakdowns, conforms and packaging, clearance/legal, and asset bids. Completed and maintained 38 design breakdowns; scheduling and tracking 15-to-30 design assignments per episode amongst 11 artists.• Completed 10 workbooks, 12 episodic deliveries, 13 reuse deliveries.• Available production wide whilst prioritizing; able to adapt, pivot, monitor, and multitask. Covered various fast paced departments: color, lighting, animation.• Created and maintained two parallel tracking systems within Shotgrid to track internal materials alongside primary and secondary vendor materials; tracked retakes, avoided redundancies, anticipated reuse. Included multiple approval stages: predesign, episodic design, execs, S&P, consumer products, clearance/legal and incoming vendor assets (models, textures, rigs).• Executed all department related meetings whilst documenting, distributing, and archiving notes. • Created Design and Asset procedures and personalized Milestones to delegate work, maximize productivity and minimize retakes. Worked 1-on-1 with creatives to learn their needs, strengths, and organic workflow to ensure departments achieved their goals and maintained pace to hit the next target.• Worked with Art Director, Supervising Producer, and CG Supervisor to identify assignments and create a concise, rolling master design schedule. • Spearheaded master Design and Assets library with corresponding tracker to aid in handoff process. Contained resources, explainers to encourage collaboration and transparency, setting Story up for success and reducing material redundancies, discrepancies production-wide.• Provided training, support, and resources to creatives and leads as well as to staff on other CG shows.• Kept schedules and breakdowns within budget parameters; adapted for episodic changes and fluctuations in staffing. Addressed variances with LP.

Burbank, California, United States

Wings of Fire• Compiled weekly Milestones for designers and leads. Contained most recent notes for ongoing assignments and launch packets for new assignments.• Worked alongside CG Supervisor, Art Director, and Assistant Art Director to identify, schedule, track colorscripts and lighting concepts.• Created ongoing FX annotations doc in anticipation of Lighting launch.

Burbank, California

GREMLINS• Created assets in Shotgrid, tracking from handout to episodic design to vendor ingestion to final delivery.• Contributed to and helped maintain 20 design/asset workbooks, breakdowns.• Ownership of 20 asset bids.• Created and maintained two parallel tracking systems within Shotgrid to accommodate incoming vendor materials, retakes, and streamline reuse process between three different softwares (Blender, Maya, 3DSMax).• Onboarded designers, modelers with Shotgrid and Box. Packaged freelance assignments, set up interviews.• Trained and assisted new support staff during pre-production period: on boarding, freelance, how-to drive meetings, entice prospective hires, tailor feedback per creative per assignment, package materials, support superiors.• Reviewed and flagged materials from overseas to ensure final designs are accurately translated and in house assets are accurately ingested.• Managed calendars, scheduling, data entry via Shotgrid for Assets/Design.• Drove department related meetings in-office and remote; taking, distributing, and archiving notes.• Coordinated with multiple departments to divide and delegate tasks to maximize collaborations and handoffs.• Created and circulated ongoing weekly progress reports show wide.• Reviewed and flagged materials from overseas to ensure final designs are accurately translated and in house assets are accurately ingested.• Reviewed and flagged sequences to ensure assets are accurately utilized and one-to-one with design.• Maintained production wide asset library; starting with internal proxy models and progressing into reference models and final vendor models, eliminating risk of redundancies, discrepancies.• Managed calendars, scheduling, data entry via Shotgrid for Assets.• Assisted in Legal tracking and clearance of designs.

Remote, Finland

• Prior fulltime, retained for consulting as well as individual contracts.• Recruited and supervised team of on-staff and freelance artists and writers. • Reviewed, revised, and supplied feedback on art submissions to preserve and evolve brand voice. • Plussed poses, clarified compositions, fixed perspective.• Conducted portfolio reviews.• Worked one-on-one with artists to develop a cohesive storytelling style.• Worked one-on-one with writers to tighten their scripts.• Researched and developed concepts for artists to use in their projects.• Compiled, pitched, and sold projects to prospective collaborative businesses.• Budgeted for advertising, special events, staff bonuses, and temps.• Participated in and executed meetings and brainstorms to increase membership, member engagement, and membership value.

• Planned, wireframed, and prototyped client websites, with a primary focus on visualdesign.• Worked directly with software development partner and handled independently art directionand copywriting to concept integrated creative campaigns and brand sites.• Participated and led new business pitches and creative presentations for current andprospective clients. Acquired new business.• Designed logos. Composed business cards and print advertisements.

Pacific Palisades

• Researched and wrote print and web copy for press.• Set up interviews. Organized and conducted portfolio reviews for all designers. Drafted offer letters.• Maintained and updated social media: created content, pushed out jobs, responded to all inquiries.• Organized and supervised the maintenance of all calendars. • Ran all meetings and took notes. • Anticipated and resolved any scheduling and client conflicts before they arose. • Created presentation materials, prepped rooms and staff for presentations. • Checked-in with designers and made sure they were receiving necessary feedback on work. • Made sure the executive and all other supervisors were up to date on status of client projects.• Communicated with designers and handled troubleshooting technology, solving issues as effectively and efficiently as possible.

• Handled Daily Deals for Boston and New Hampshire, filling in for other New England locales when needed.• Remote, reported every Friday by noon EST to senior writer with week’s assignment. Addressed any necessary edits by EOD.

2D Animation

Storyboarding