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California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

I produce and creatively direct Glide Memorial Church’s Sunday Celebration hybrid live stream and manage a six-person team of live audio and video technicians. My role encompasses strategic communications, team management, concept development, hybrid livestream guidance, interoperability research, presentations, project management, and talent relations. Additional tasks include motion design, stage design, lighting design, creating original audio and video work, running a soundboard, audio and video editing, maintaining an audio/video gear and musical instruments inventory, and live cinematography with Wirecast Pro and Ecamm Live.Highlights:• Developed our custom hybrid in-person-and-webcast model• Produced and directed over 500 hybrid live-stream events • Expanded live-stream from Facebook-only to YouTube and helped increase YouTube subscribers by 350%• Co-produced and directed The Celebration of Life live-stream for Glide founder Rev. Cecil Williams, featuring Joan Baez, Michael Franti, and Tom Johnston of The Doobie Brothers• ABC7 broadcasted several of my directed live-streamed events on television in their entirety• Created our first mobile and off-site live-stream events

San Francisco, California, United States

I produce and creatively direct Glide Memorial Church’s Sunday Celebration hybrid live stream and manage a six-person team of live audio and video technicians. My role encompasses strategic communications, team management, concept development, hybrid livestream guidance, interoperability research, presentations, project management, and talent relations.

Once a week, the podcast “All Your Favorite Music is (Probably)...” takes a themed dive into popular songs and unearths the connections, like buried treasure.

San Francisco Bay Area

I present humorous, immersive, and historically accurate courses on music, both online and in-person, internationally. Courses include "All Your Favorite Music is (Probably) Black," "Unsung Women of Music," and "The Completely Abridged History of Bay Area Music."

Oakland, Ca

I compose scores for films, commercials, and media.

San Francisco, Ca

I led a team of Visual Designers, Copywriters and UX Designers to enhance Ebates’ members Cash Back shopping experiences through data-rich desktop, mobile web, app, social, print and video media. This included ideation and asset generation of weekly themed promotions, larger-scaled quarterly and yearly sales events, and concepting innovative solutions to move ahead of the retail curve. I encouraged on-brand conceptual testing and applying of customer feedback to create effective and reproducible creative results.I worked closely with the managers of Customer Retention, Content, Mobile, App and Web Dev to smoothly align our output to company goals. In 2016 this resulted in the augmented personalization of Ebates store pages, account areas, and a suite of emails, all of which increased customer engagement.Highlights:Helped Ebates achieve 5% of all U.S e-commerce sales during Cyber Days 2015 and 2016Creatively directed the first Ebates site redesign in 6 yearsWon 14 awards in for creative and strategic excellenceLaunched Ebates first credit card, first luxury site and first video product demosSee portfolio at mrfr3nch.com

San Francisco Bay Area

I led Creative, Web Dev, UX, and Process Management staff in California, New York, Tennessee, Singapore and Australia to innovation, timeliness and profitability. My team created responsively-coded mobile-optimized emails, sites, preference centers, and iBooks plus traditional direct mail for Fortune 500 clients such as Microsoft, AT&T, Symantec, Citi, FedEx, Home Depot, HP and Wyndham Hotels.I provided creative consulting to clients about mobile marketing, post-social branding, and data-smart consumer engagement. I orchestrated the creative portion of new business pitches, from spec work conception to face-to-face presentation, traveling internationally when necessary. I created and maintained processes that allowed for frictionless growth both internally and externally.

San Francisco Bay Area

Virtual Highlight Reel:Concepted a multichannel re-engagement campaign for Sun that had a 300% increase in response rate. Result: some nice awards and additional multichannel campaign projects from Sun.Designed a pure AJAX B2B customer profiler Web app for HP that received a record 60% completion rate, in 35 different languages. Result: some nice awards and additional Web app projects from HP.Created a downloadable RSS-enhanced health plan awareness widget for Kaiser Permanente. Result: my first awards for software development and songwriting, and additional interactive projects from Kaiser Permanente.In 2008 I received 15 awards for outstanding interactive design and advertising.