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London , Gb

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Faceware is a SaaS software and hardware product company which sells to the gaming and VFX/CG industry. CSO leads worldwide sales and marketing functions, recruiting top talent, formulates product and business strategy recommendations to all employees, partners, suppliers, and vendors. Manages top 25 accounts and partners with relationships at the CxO/VP/Studio Director levels.

• Responsible for qualifying, vetting, and negotiating specific business opportunities for consumer applications leveraging Image Metrics patented face and body recognition and tracking technology.• Signed contracts with strategic customers including, L’Oreal Paris, NFL, Nissan USA, Baltimore Ravens, Chicago Bears, and the Olympics. • Spearheaded effort behind Nissan's Diehard Fan app- a #1 Free Sports App in the US• Assisted marketing efforts and led physical tradeshow presence across multiple verticals, countries, and industries.

Faceware is a privately held company, headquartered in Los Angeles with offices Austin and Manchester, UK. As VP, I spun out a full suite of software and hardware products in 2012. I led the effort to establish our entire business development ecosystem. From our first dollar I quickly expanded our presence Worldwide, including our direct and channel sales teams. I led efforts to identify and negotiate key strategic partners including Epic, Unity, Autodesk, Reallusion, Vicon, Xsens, Optitrack, Warner Brothers, Take Two, and Electronic Arts. With over 200 notable accounts, our AAA customers include but aren't limited to 2K Sports, 343 Industries, Activision, Arena Net, Avalanche, Bandai Namco Studios, Bethesda Softworks, Blizzard, BUNGIE, Capcom, CD Projekt, Cloud Imperium Games, EIDOS Montreal, Electronic Arts, Gearbox, Guerrilla Games, Hangar 13, Hazelight Studios, Infinity Ward, Koei Tecmo, Kojima, Konami, Massive, Microsoft, NCSoft, Netherrealm, Raven, Rebellion, Respawn, Rockstar Games, SCEA, Sega, WB Games, ZeniMax.Our CG and VFX customers include but aren't limited to Atomic Fiction, Audiomotion, Beyond Capture Studios, Blur Studios, Brud, Centroid3D, Counter Punch, Deluxe Media Creative Services, Digic Pictures, Digital Domain 3.0, Disney ABC Networks Group, Disney Streaming Services, Double Negative (VAN), Dreamworks Animation, ESPN, Farsky Interactive, Fox VFX Lab, Hasbro, Industrial Light & Magic, Lola Visual Effects, Magic Leap, Mattel, Meow Wolf, MPC London, Mr.X Toronto, Netflix, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Nvidia, Oculus Research, OF3D, Paramount Overseas Productions, Psyop, Ryot Labs, Samsung Research America, Scanline VFX, Silver Spoon, Tata Elxsi, Technicolor - India, Technicolor Creative Services USA , Tencent.Co, The Mill, Tippett Studio, Toei, Walt Disney Imagineering, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, Walt Disney Productions, Warner Brothers Entertainment- Emerging Tech & Strategic Innovation, Waterproof Studios, Zoic Studios.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

-Oversees all new business from a technical standpoint-Ensures client is fully aware of internal processes from initial qualification through to delivery of a project-Interfaced with Worldwide Sales team to ensure all projects were appropriately staffed and resourced accordingly with production management-Reported directly to EVP on variety of production, marketing, and sales strategies.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

-Soley produced entire production studio of 75 artists, technical support, development, marketing, product marketing, and IT in allroles of production including TV, film, theatre, and video game projects most notably:FILMS: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Academy Award for Best Visual Effects), The Mummy 3, Meet Dave, Splice, FoodfightAAA GAMES: Grand Theft Auto 4, Army of Two, Assassins Creed 2, Red Dead Redemption, God of War 3-Reported to CEO, CTO and COO, ongoing production status on a daily, weekly, & monthly basis to ensure all projects were done on time and on budget.-Bid projects with solid knowledge of VFX/CG production pipelines, schedules & budgets to assess a true internal project cost.-Understand and supported a flexible pipeline which utilized Maya, Max, XSI, MotionBuilder, Houdini, and AfterEffects-Directed several hundred ongoing productions/ leads at any given time, ensuring all clients creative vision and direction were met-Delivered over 2500 minutes of production across nearly 250 projects: on time, on-budget, and to client satisfaction-Designed studio’s individual production tracking system with Microsoft Access, Avid Alienbrian and Excel

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-Supported lighting department for 5 animated short films for the US Government’s PEPFAR program on a graveyard shift-Technically fixed rigging, modeling, texture/shader, and rendering issues in a time-crunched environment-Successfully achieved strict production schedule and met all project deliverables-Bridged CG knowledge gap between frustrated artists and schedule minded executives

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

- Coordinated three different departments with over 40 artists to a strict production schedule for Barnyard, The Movie-Worked technically in-depth with TD department to fix daily problems and situations.-Ensured all artists had correct design, direction and overall enough work to achieve department quotas-Successfully tracked and managed over 2500 assets through the production pipeline-Designed film’s post production in-studio pipeline to automatically incorporate multiple departments and severaldeliverables-Worked exclusively with CG supervisor for seven months to learn ins and outs of production pipelineing

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-Worked in nine different production departments in various roles-Coordinated Digital Effects department, only CG dependant department on entire 2D film-Designed tutorials for entire production staff

-Designed and managed entire productions of CD-ROMs “The Battle of Shiloh” & “The Battle of Chickamauga”-Created hundreds of sprites/ graphics for animation in Macromedia Director and Adobe AfterEffects-Produced all 2D art design, scanning, advertising and implementation into presentation in Adobe Illustrator-Managed all music, score, and sound design for overall mix of entire production