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Denver, Colorado, United States

Think visually. Work brilliantly.

Greater Boston Area

Simmetri.com is a creative workbench and platform for building live interactive 3D experiences for your audience - through screens, projections or virtual reality.Featuring an immersive user interface that encourages experimentation, play, and the rapid development of ideas, Simmetri was built on the philosophy that multi-dimensional creating should be fun.

Somerville, Ma

Research and design, prototyping and strategizing in XR. Self-driven creative pursuits resulted in 2 notable hackathon 1st place wins: MIT Media Lab hosted-MIT Hacking Arts 2016, SXSW VR Hackathon 2017. CLIENTELE: - Investors navigating emerging AR/VR/MR landscape and adjacent technologies. - Futurism Institute seeking tech/creative demos - Media innovation lab in Cambridge, Mass. (Not allowed to disclose name). - Design-thinking and business strategy agencies.

Cambridge ,Ma

Hacking Arts ignites entrepreneurship and innovation within the creative arts. We bring together creative technologists, artists, innovators and hackers at MIT to explore the future of the arts at our annual Conference, Tech Expo and Hackathon.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

What I do as advisor is transferring to Sparkfund my gained capital (human, social and intellectual) from my founder role as strategic/operational architect and program designer of Groundswell.org and other endeavors. This includes: - Social enterprise startup experience - DC-specific startup experience(a unique beast). - Energy efficiency markets subject matter expertise. - DC and national connections in the energy space

Washington D.C. Metro Area

As director of Impact Hub DC, I worked with the brilliant leadership of Mission: Launch, to create the thriving community innovation coalition: "Rebuilding Reentry"- which ignited a national movement of people and organizations innovating solutions to challenges faced by people returning from serving correctional sentences. https://rebuildingreentry.tumblr.com/

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Collaborating with key Impact Hub community members, we catalyzed the formation of The DC Social Innovation Labs Community of Practice. Through a continuing series of sold out events we've inspired a diverse and potent community of practitioners to work together to advance the Social Labs methodology; considered by many to be the leading-edge of deep social innovation. http://www.social-labs.com/course/how-to-design-a-social-lab-washington-dc/"Social Labs", or "Social Innovation Labs", is a social innovation methodology that is quickly being discovered and recognized as the bleeding edge. As they are long-term, holistic, experimental/iterative and harness an ever-expanding and evolving social network of resources, they deliver deep and lasting impact and actual innovative results where so many social programs or charitable efforts only fall short. "Social innovation" as a concept or professional domain is too often challenged by a perception of it being undefined and buzzword-y. Many attempts to add definition fall flat as they alone, no matter how rigorous, only make lists of the 'content' or subdomains of social innovation-- eg, poverty innovation, financial inclusion innovation, education innovation. What 'social labs' does differently than these attempts is to define the principles of social innovation as a 'process' or practice -- stating, to that end, that that which distinguishes social innovation, from other innovation, is 'how' it happens, and 'who' is involved, etc. This framework is essentially 'content-agnostic', and 'process-specific'. The solution(s) are viewed as an emergent property of the community-- emergent from within and at the community's edges. What drives the emergence?... The process. The social lab through time.For more on Social Labs methodology see: http://www.social-labs.com/fieldbook/https://www.presencing.com/theoryu,

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- A phenomenal team effort. - In late spring 2009, in the off-hours of my Health and Human Services Video Producer contract, I lead and facilitated Groundswell's first-ever organizational chartering retreat. Immediately thereafter, I wrote our flagship executive summary and initial grant-seeking collateral, secured initial angel supporter/donors and within one month had won us our first break-out funding of $25K, and by 3 months, an additional $85K. - After installing an executive director, I transitioned to lead the program design and creation of the organization's flagship innovation, the non-profit program "WeatherizeDC"​. This was V.1 of what has later become our signature model we named "Civic Consumption."​- I developed the nationally-recognized and first-of-its-kind, "WxDC Community Workforce Agreement,"​ a 'community benefits agreement'​ between our participating contractors and labor union partners. This agreement ensured above-living wages, health benefits, and career advancement training for those hired as result of the community clean energy work we generated. - Both internally and externally-facing, I employed graphic design, script-writing and video skills to advance our communications strategy/materials. - I managed numerous strategic/operational partnerships for the organization, including Veterans Green Jobs and the D.C. Sustainable Energy Utility, and spoke on behalf of the organization before the U.S. Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Good Jobs Green Jobs Conference. - As DC Programs Director I oversaw a three-fold expansion in the program’s key performance metrics.- As Innovation Director, I designed and built Groundswell's enterprise software, coordinated the design and launch of the organization’s National Training Program, and guided the launch of the organization's new program in bulk community clean energy procurement. - I contributed heavily to the fundraising/development activities.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Represented IB5k software discovery meetings with clients in the US Congress. Built IB5k's initial video clientele; pitching through production. Contributed to IB5k's core video strategy and networked production system design. Left IB5k after 8 months to start Groundswell.

I worked directly with the Agency's Chief of Communications to develop video and digital media content featuring Secretary Sebelius, HHS and White House Officials, and others involved in healthcare reform. I also took it upon myself to streamline digital media workflows, hacking bureaucracy and outmoded systems where possible. I was offered the upcoming position of HHS New Media Director, and begrudgingly turned it down to follow a different passion and start Groundswell.

Worked in the New Media teams and produced videos and strategy for: - Obama's 08 presidential campaign, based out of headquarters in Chicago.- Presidential Transition Team- Obama Administration: Health and Human Services

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed the video program for Power Shift 2009. Produced promotional and documentary video content leading up to, during and post summit. Directed team of 15 videographers and other media specialists to comprehensively cover the entire four day event. In 2007, I was hired to execute an intensive video training for 35 nationally and internationally selected young environmental and social justice leaders. The intensive training spanned 5 days in conjunction with EAC's PowerShift 07, the nation's first and largest youth summit on climate change. The position included: rapid outreach and selection of participants and trainers, procurement of 8 complete digital video kits (camera, mics, laptops, software, warranties, insurance, etc), travel and logistical management of the training.

United States

Third Point LLCPrivately Held; 11-50 employees; Investment Management industryJuly 20Third Point LLC specialized in short-form documentary-style promotional video for companies and NGOs. Work spans from fund raising videos for university capital campaigns responsible for raising over $5million, to personal profile videos of youth environmental award winners, to short form docs for TV.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Helped start-up Venetucci farm. Assisted in all aspects of launching the sustainable agriculture community farm; Grant-writing, fundraising and promotion, helped design the industrial compost program, the children's garden and nutrition program, the student farms and community plots and helped secure the farm's conservation easement. Also produced a retrospective promotional documentary for the farm. Venetucci Farm, program of Pikes Peak Community Foundation, is a farm that creates and shares high-quality educational experiences for community members, especially children, to learn first hand about farming, nutrition, cooking, and other related ideas - where community members can learn about sustainable agriculture and become engaged in meaningful community service through volunteer service at the Farm. The 200 acre Farm stands as an icon in advancing best practices for sustainable agriculture.

Greater Denver Area

For informing and empowering the RMFU and its constituency of struggling small-scale farmers, I conducted six-months of detailed case study research of viable small-scale and alternative/organic farm marketing programs: CSAs, cooperatives, farmers markets, community farms, agritourism.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Reweaving the social fabric of a foodscape by connecting local farmers and churches. I received a social innovation grant to explore/ conduct R&D on a concept that could help locally-marketing farmers all over the US reconnect with one of the highest pockets of social capital throughout middle-america, religious institutions. For grassroots marketing and community building social capital is king, for local farmers grassroots marketing is king. This required an rigorous effort of values-language translation -- to help bridge the values frameworks of a young, predominantly evangelical Christian faith community with the idealisms of organic family farmers and natural life-stylists.

Professional Certificate, Architecture Of Complex Systems

Professional Certificate, Models In Engineering

Professional Certificate, Documentation In Model Based Systems Engineering

Environmental Science: Systems Science (Major)---3D Design/Architecture (Minor), Design And Applied Arts

Activities and Societies: Synergy House: Co-founder EnAct: 3 year Co-chair CC Farm: Co-founder CC Food Coop: Co-founder CC Fair Trade.

Certificate, Solar And Natural Home Design

High School, Environmental Science

Activities and Societies: telemark ski team, garden, compost, theater, trail building, ranching team, solar team