Senior in-house producer for episodic television, manager of all aspects of operations for the studio and primary management contact for Zoic LA’s Head of Production and CFO. Responsible for directly producing shows, oversight of freelance and junior producers, co-production of shows based at Zoic LA, maintaining and reporting project actuals, resource management in coordination with Zoic LA scheduling, interviewing and hiring, human resource management, and coordinating payroll through LA.

Provided consulting services for Zoic’s Vancouver start-up effort, providing assessment & business process improvement guidance

Responsible for managing the formation, growth and CG production of the Worldwide Visualization Group, an internal R&D group initially created to provide pre-rendered “visual targets” to game teams. • The WWVG grew to include software engineers, expanding the group’s focus to include tools for game teams, and real-time prototyping on X-Box and PS3 dev stations, in addition to ongoing graphics R&D in high-value areas. • WWVG’s main areas of inquiry included high fidelity asset creation, human scanning techniques, universal performance capture, procedural animation techniques, advanced skin shaders, interactive performance capture, and new intellectual property. • Roll-out of EA Canada’s universal capture service and WWVG’s pinnacle project, the Fight Night Round 3 real-time demo presented at Sony’s World Launch of the Playstation 3, also featured at the E3 conference in May 2005.

Produced approximately 50 shots for the Rivendell sequences working with the former 2D supervisor for LOTR at WETA Digital.

Responsible for all aspects of production management for highly complex multi-million dollar, digitally animated productions. Demonstrated success in hiring, team building, HR management, and resource acquisition. • X-Men 2: X-Men United: Kleiser-Walczak reprised the impressive work on the CG double for Mystique. Responsible for initial project planning, staffing, and preliminary scheduling.• Busch Gardens, Virginia: “Corkscrew Hill: A 3D Faerie Tale Adventure” - An all-CG ride film. • Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany: “Future Journey” - A four-minute high-definition vision of the future of transportation.• Radio City Music Hall: “Santa Lights Up New York” - A new stereoscopic 70mm introduction to the famous Christmas Spectacular show. • Universal Studios Islands of Adventure: “The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman” - A $150M first-of -its-kind immersive stereoscopic ridefilm allowing a moving audience POV.

Responsible for project scheduling and resource estimation, work assignments, and tracking budget and progress for television commercials involving both digital animation and live action.