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Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, US

Established and led Skybound Animation’s Training and Artist Management functions for a 100+ person crew. Built and launched Animation Trainee program to develop new talent across multiple tracks.Led artist management for Skybound Animation, including recruiting, career development, and offboarding. Programmed studio culture initiatives including technical.

Los Gatos, CA, US

Created programming, events, and training curriculum to inspire and educate talent across a growing Netflix Animation Studio. Worked closely with creative leadership (Directors, Producers, and Showrunners) to deliver inclusive studio resources.In 2020, built programming strategy for internal events focused on peer-to-peer learning, and launched external.

Mountain View, CA, US

As Art Director of Android's avatar and sticker programs, I built authentic, mobile-centric animated content and managed its international release to millions of mobile users.Managed internal art team to produce weekly sticker content releases, and identified and hired local artists to create mobile content for Canada, France, Nordics, and Mexico, as well.

Founder of an influential publishing house, with a 15 year track record of elevating unique and underrepresented voices in visual storytelling. Our books include collaborations with Rebecca Sugar, Jillian Tamaki, Lisa Hanawalt, Richie Pope, Emily Carroll, and many other vanguard creators. Executed all aspects of design and print production including.

San Bruno, CA, US

Hired, trained, and led 10-person Help Solutions team, creating all educational content for 8 YouTube products. Defined the editorial voice of a large, effective corpus of trainings, tours, and onboarding materials which received more than 1.5 Billion annual pageviews. Managed video production of weekly content for a YouTube channel with 4 Million.

San Bruno, CA, US

Managed the launch and localization strategy for in-product messaging and support experience of three new YouTube products: YouTube Kids, YouTube Gaming, and YouTube Music.

Mountain View, CA, US

Trained 20+ person Partner Program team. Editor for all written policy & support resources for Google eBooks program. Represented Google at international book fairs and in meetings with key publishing partners.

Mountain View, CA, US

Account management for authors and publishers, onboarding them to new programs to monetize their catalogues with Google Books. Managed ad revenue payment process for Google Books partners, including communications around policy and rights.