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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 masterclasses, mentorships, and continuing arts education.

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 speaker series bringing creative leaders from outside of animation to inspire our internal talent. In 2021, built Netflix Animation's Research offering for development projects, Director-led screening events, and community virtual spaces. In 2022, launched internal podcast focusing on career development and managed media production budget and workflow.Created and hosted more than 80 seminars as part of multimodal learning curriculum for the Netflix Animation community, with guests including Jillian Tamaki, Phil Lord & Chris Miller, Misha Green, Glen Keane, Elijah Wood, Junji Ito, SuperGiant Games, Flying Lotus, Mamoru Hosoda, Everett Downing, UCLA's Tananarive Due, and other storytellers and thought leaders.

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 as American Sign Language stickers.

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 layout, Risograph and offset printing, and international resourcing (import/export, customs).I managed online retail store and social media marketing, generating over 250K in revenue via direct sales, international network of wholesale retailers, and in-person book events and festivals.

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 subscribers.Managed $1M+ annual localization budget for content across 60 languages, and created KPI performance goals and reporting.

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.