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London, England, United Kingdom

Seattle/London

London/Seattle

Consulting, designing, prototyping and releasing art and technology projects focused on enhanced and interactive user-experiences that explore and question the boundaries of art, technology and community. Exhibition highlights include the 2021 DOK Leipzig Extended Reality program and the 2021 Athens Digital Arts Festival (Audience Award).Employing and combing AI, extended reality (XR) and web-design. Tools including AWS, Nvidia StyleGAN, Deep Learning, Python, LLMs, LangChain, Unity/C#, Javascript, CSS, Adobe Premiere/Photoshop, Mystika VR, Spark AR, Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation, Vive and Oculus. Latest project: https://www.blursday.zone

Seattle, Washington, United States

Provided Marketing Strategy, Technology Consultation, Efficiency Evaluation, Financial Analysis services and more for multiple companies including Microsoft.

Handled all aspects of strategic business development including planning, prospecting, negotiating, contracting and deal implementation – with a primary focus on technology and content licensing deals. Closed strategically important deals with dozens of companies including Verizon, Hulu, CBS Audience Network, Sony Crackle, DirecTV, Comcast, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Samsung, Buena Vista, Sony Pictures, CBS Metacritic, Movietickets.com, Showtime, IBM, and Cablevision.HIGHLIGHTS:o Launched full-length ad-supported streaming video on IMDb by negotiating contracts and driving project implementation for Hulu, CBS, and Sony Crackle content on IMDb.o Launched IMDb Everywhere Syndication for living room including 20th Century Fox Blu-ray releases, Cablevision set-top boxes, PopBox and Boxee. o Negotiated and managed implementation of Metacritic professional critics rating and Movietickets.com showtimes and ticketing services. o Developed marketing, pricing, contracts and priorities for re-launch of IMDb content syndication business, (c.f. imdb.com/licensing ). Grew content licensing direct revenue by 97% from 2009 to 2011.o Scoped requirements, managed engineering development, and drove project sign-off through senior management at IMDb, Amazon Web Services, legal, and finance departments to launch webservice.imdb.com that vended IMDb content to select partners thru Amazon Web Services platform.

Managed movies and music Marketplace categories for third-party sales. Grew the segment-share to be over 25% of all units sold thru the Amazon platform for movies and music. Won prestigious “Just Do It” award for developing a program to manage seller performance that served as a model for company-wide seller performance program.

Greater Seattle Area

Outreach, organizing and fundraising to increase social awareness and effect change for ecological & social-justice issues.

Recruited, trained and managed 50-person sales force that focused on the direct sale of education materials. Delivered over 5000 sales presentations through leads generated by cold calling. Organized and ran sales training classes and weekly sales meetings.