• Closed complex financing, sales, and distribution deals totaling over $10,000,000.• Produced "1 Mile to You" based on the novel "Life at These Speeds" about a teen overcoming tragedy to become a world-class runner; stars Billy Crudup, Tim Roth, Graham Rogers, Liana Liberato, Stefanie Scott.• Produced "Down For Life", starring Danny Glover, Snoop Dogg, and Kate Del Castillo, based on a N.Y. Times article about a teen gang leader who survives South-Central L.A.• Built lasting relationships with cross-functional teams of creatives, financiers, studio executives, legal representatives, sales agents, media outlets, and third-party vendors.• Developed and implemented business plans for motion picture entertainment, detailing marketing opportunities and strategies; designed analytical financial models.• Envisioned and executed solutions to complex business, technical, and creative issues, understanding them from multiple perspectives.

• Evaluated student-athletes and their families, recommending appropriate action steps.• Conducted in-person and phone introductions, follow-ups, and check-ins.• Communicated benefits and costs of NCAA DI, DII, DIII, NAIA, and JC opportunities.• Placed student-athletes with schools across multiple sports and divisions.

• Founded and led Celebrate Recovery, a faith-based 12-step family recovery program.• Conducted Biblical guidance and counseling sessions with students, parents, and families.• Taught weekly motivational lessons to groups ranging from 5-10 to 30-60 to as large as 300-400.

• Coached and trained student-athletes at the youth, middle school, and high school levels.• Communicated with families, club directors, assistant coaches, and league administrators.• Won local and regional championships implementing Positive Coaching Alliance values.

• Founded the company to specialize in marketing and advertising strategy, design, and production; successfully financed the company’s start-up via private equity; led the company from concept to success in 3 years, achieving 100% annual revenue growth.• Created and implemented annual company sales and marketing plans detailing direct and indirect sales channels and new communications strategies; evangelized the company’s services via a cohesive brand identity, including logos, trademarks, press interviews, portfolios, and the Internet.• Developed and implemented creative marketing strategies and campaigns for national consumer brands Kelly-Moore Paints, Books for Dummies, and Cliff’s Notes; researched competitive products and consumer demographics; devised and wrote marketing plans and budgets for clients.• Maintained excellent relationships among often-conflicting parties: advertising agency executives, client marketing directors, and creative commercial talent; managed diverse teams on various design and production projects to solve complex business issues.

• Founding member of the company, which specialized in 3-D graphics software for surface texturing and which ultimately was acquired by Spatial Technologies, Inc.• Developed sales, marketing, and technology strategies in collaboration with founding team.• Co-designed an irreverent corporate identity that resonated with software partners and end-users; communicated this identity via press releases, company bios, product brochures, and the Internet.• Presented the company and its products to end-users, executives and the media at SIGGRAPH.

• Led cross-functional teams among multiple divisions in revamping and optimizing the design-prototype-manufacture product cycle; successfully bridging cultures and building relationships among often-conflicting design, test, and manufacturing divisions.• Championed a new product design methodology that saved millions of dollars by improving quality and reducing time-to-market; co-authored two U.S. Patents.• Major contributor to products that generated billions of dollars of shareholder value and garnered numerous awards: the Onyx Graphics Engine supercomputer and Nintendo Ultra64 videogame console; received a Silicon Graphics Team Achievement Award.• Represented the company during recruiting trips, interviewing hundreds of candidates and influencing hiring decisions; represented the company at a U. S. Government- sponsored consortia for technology development between industry and universities.• Consistently excelled under demanding new product marketing and release schedules.

• Inaugural winner of the Intel Foundation Robert N. Noyce scholarship award while a sophomore at Stanford University.• Published product design specifications, marketing guidelines, and product proposals for use by engineers, customers, and management.• Presented application solutions for Intel Pentium microprocessors and chip sets to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and vendors.• Designed one of the first multimedia applications in 1991 to deliver product and technical marketing information over the Intel Corporation intranet.