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Santa Maria, Ca, Us

Santa Barbara-Santa Maria Area

Coordinates launch site needs, requirements, and documentations for spacecraft customers. Additionally, manages NASA VSFB Resident office facilities. - Missions include: SWOT (2022) and SPHEREx- Completion participant of NASA Emerging Leaders Program and Accelerated Training Program

Greater Los Angeles Area

Facilitated team discussions, brainstorming and strategy development sessions aligning with scope and execution of project with over 500 engineers, architects, artists and vendors for "Journey of Water" (2023)

Hawaiian Islands

Overall project engineering support for the 513 units high-rise residential project “The Central”.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Designed a long term campus wide parking and greenspace master plan for NASA Glenn Research Center (4000+ employees and contractors), as well as developed strategies to incorporate sustainable and modern features into the site master planNASA Glenn Research Center Intern Design Challenge: 1st overall & Innovation Award- Led team of 3 interns on layout of a smart parking system to be implemented at NASA GRC.- Formulated plan, budget, scope, schedule, and presentation over the course of a weekend and presented to a panel of subject matter experts.

Anaheim, Ca

Assisted various departments with multifaceted onsite inspections, documentation, as-built verifications, and ADA compliance checks of the attractions and facilities at Disneyland, DCA, resorts & facilities.-Environmental documentation of all water features (e.g. It’s a Small World & Splash Mountain)-Structural inspections (e.g. Matterhorn, Jessie’s Critter Carousel, and Grand California Hotel pool)-Edited and marked civil, structural, and architectural drawings in AutoCAD, Bluebeam and Photoshop.-Prepared structural calculation packages for various anchorage design projects using Hilti PROFIS Anchor (e.g. Incredicoaster Brine Tanks and Tomorrowland Astro Orbiter Actuator)

Pearl Harbor

- Secret security clearance obtained. - General administrative and fleet management work utilizing Maximo.- Facilitated the transportation needs of various federal agencies and communicated with approved vendors.

Montreal, Canada Area

Worked with the Compositing Supervisor and Visual Effects Supervisor to evaluate the creative and technical approach for assigned shots utilizing workflow diagrams and formatted comps.Projects include: The Revenant – Golden Globe for Best Picture of the Year [2015]Projects include: Fantastic Four – Golden Raspberry for Worst Picture of the Year [2015]Pan (2015), Victor Frankenstein (2015), Fantastic Four (2015), The Revenant (2015), The Finest Hours (2016)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Progressed from night shift digital paint team to main shift stereoscopic depth team for various projects.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Sin City: a Dame to Kill for (2014)

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Rotopaint work for Eadweard (2015)

Bachelor'S Degree, Civil Engineering, 3.7

Activities and Societies: Honors Student, Student Ambassador, Engineering Student Council memberUS Army Futures Command: The Urban.

Diploma, 3D Animation And Vfx

Activities and Societies: Teaching Assistant, Production Assistant, Technicolor Academy GraduateFocus in Compositing Experience.

Diploma, Foundational Art And Design

Activities and Societies: Production Assistant for "Cheers to Death"Focus in Animation Experience with traditional 2D, Toon Boom Harmony.