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Renton, Washington, United States

London, Gb

Working on an unannounced Unreal project, consulting with various stakeholders on overall project scope, art style, and player experience.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Led Agile Project Management for Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Orchestrated scheduling and project management for four critical art and design teams (Concept Art, Character Modeling, Hard Surface Modeling, Design) in a rapid pace development environment. Managed priorities, stand-ups, artifact creation, and process documentation in Jira, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and release priorities.Streamlined Production Workflows: Developed innovative dependency maps and automation tools with fellow producers to enhance project efficiency. Collaboratively mapped initiatives at the highest level down to individual tasks, optimizing project tracking and management processes.Championed Team Well-being and Productivity: Advocated for an empathic and sustainable team reporting structure, fostering a culture of work-life balance and resilience. Leveraged redundant production capacity strategies to navigate team complexities while maintaining focus on overall goals and schedules.Established Foundational Process Documentation: Created comprehensive process documentation, Jira filters, dashboards, Miro Boards, and Confluence pages. Developed and delivered compelling character pitches and presentations to align stakeholders and drive project vision.Enhanced Collaboration and Communication Channels: Spearheaded the development of Slack channels and announcements to facilitate seamless team communication and collaboration. Leveraged diverse tools and platforms to ensure clear and effective dissemination of project updates and information.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Senior Producer of Magic.gg esports website, Twitch broadcast tools, tournament systems, and Magic the Gathering: Arena features.Managed an automation team tasked with generating innovative solution to streamline daily production and operations, conducted daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and release planning while overseeing task tracking and scheduling using Jira and Confluence.Worked with external vendors to develop and implement innovative technology solutions for Twitch broadcasts, tournament data tracking, and website features/design.Collaborated with downstream data set creators using Postman and AWS to implement JSON powered upstream tools, website functions and features.Developed core procedure and website escalation documentation, training materials, and dashboards to support team operations and facilitate cross-functional collaboration.Employed Agile methodologies to manage team velocity, create dependency maps for initiatives, and deliver comprehensive status reports to leadership.Leveraged a diverse toolkit including Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, Perforce, Postman, GitHub, Unity Engine, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Tableau, and Google Analytics to drive project success.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I lead broadcast production on the most viewed Halo esports broadcast of all time, Halo World Championship 2018.My team and I delighted Halo fans with hundreds of hours of Halo 5 and Halo: The Master Chief Collection live broadcasts.I lead broadcast production on the 2017 and 2018 Halo Championship Series broadcast programs, along with worldwide marketing campaigns to promote both.I established best practices and guidebooks for all aspects of Halo esports broadcast production. In addition to broadcast production I oversaw and curated all content for the Halo.gg esports website as well as the Halo app on Windows.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I managed a team of nine producers and artists – tracked work hours, deliverables, and defined strategy to increase productivity. Reported team progress and aligned Microsoft needs with external vendor capabilities.I oversaw Halo Waypoint website production, including CMS, art asset production, project management of website beats, graphic production and coordination, copy editing, social integrations, legal terms and compliance.I lead 343 studio livestreams by coordinating talent and distribution channels, tracking assets, creating video packages, creating graphics, and providing live camera/audio direction.

Redmond, Washington, Us

As a producer on 343 Industries Halo franchise, I was relied upon to produce industry leading videogame motion picture content and strategy.I produced over 700 stand-alone video assets for the Halo Channel, and 343 Industries YouTube account – wrote, produced, shot, edited, mixed, and delivered high production value videos surrounding major game releases, game updates, marketing initiatives, and special content drops.I established advanced team based video editing systems, including shared access video editing platforms, storage, templates, file structures, and overall best practices. I localized and produced all Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo 4 Terminal videos for Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Videos were seen by millions of fans via the Halo Channel and are integral to the campaign player experience.

San Francisco, California, Us

Established the video team at Uber Santa Monica from the ground up. Scheduled, budgeted, and produced video materials to be pushed to thousands of drivers on a weekly basis.Co-developed a custom iOS video application that was used by thousands of drivers in the UBER fleet.

High definition videography service providing documentary, commercial, and editorial filmmaking. Clients include: MicrosoftSonyElectronic ArtsActivision BlizzardNaughty DogInfinity WardRevision3

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As a co-founder of Area 5 Media, LLC I wore many hats and produced an exceptional amount of content with little resources and time. Content productions ranged from multi-part video marketing campaigns, to weekly videogame review segments and narratives, all while producing a weekly 45 minute videogame review show named “Co-Op”.I helped build a marketing strategy that earned and sustained a weekly viewership for various video properties by leveraging extensive social media marketing, and community building.I put my video editing skills to work and produced numerous video segments - from concept to completion – including commercials, editorial, and documentary. When not creating video content I was busy generating budgets, estimates, invoices, and timesheets, while also managing projects involving multiple teams in numerous locations. I traveled internationally with clients to record their gameplay footage and interview creatives about their new games. I was responsible for the production, post-production, and online promotion of these video campaigns and worked with each of our clients to ensure we captured the story behind their creations.

New York, New York, Us

At Ziff Davis Media I was trusted to produce worldwide exclusive content for numerous high profile videogame publishers including major publishers and developers, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and Sony. I scheduled, recorded, and edited weekly video shows for distribution to iTunes, YouTube, and ZD gaming websites (The 1UPShow, Broken Pixels, Not the 1UPShow) leveraging multiple disparate teams throughout the industry.I was also on the front lines of Gamevideos.com and populated and managed a 15,000 entity video database using advanced video encoding software, SQL Server, and custom built CMS.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Management

Master Of Science (M.S.), Management Information Systems

Bfa, Film - Cinematography