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Indonesia

Los Angeles, California, United States

Seoul, South Korea

Greater Los Angeles Area

Co-founded Tau Films with John Hughes. In addition to handling business development, creative project supervision, producing and everything else in between, I served as the original architect for an entirely new distributed production pipeline built from scratch, designed for simultaneous, synchronized production across physical studios in five countries.

Culver City, CA

Lead an international team of artists in designing and creating immersive, virtual time-lapse media for the One World Observatory "Sky Pod" elevators at One World Trade Center in New York City. Guests board one of five dedicated elevators to ascend to the 102nd floor in 47 seconds, viewing the development of New York City’s skyline from the 1500s to.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Responsible for supervising and implementing look development, fx/simulation, lighting, rendering and compositing on a range of feature, short film and commercial projects. Training and direct management of production teams of 50+ artists between four international locations for large-scale projects involving 500+ visual effects shots with thousands of.

Visual effects supervision and consulting for a variety of music videos and independent feature projects. Wrangled script breakdowns, effects design, bidding, on-set supervision and post-production. Collaborated with creative team members locally and in remote locations. Lead diverse teams of artists both on-set and in post-production.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Accomplished commercial and fine art still photographer exhibited in galleries and featured in publications across the United States. Prints can be found in public and private collections across North America.

Greater Seattle Area

Worked independently and with other artists to produce CG elements and composites for print, interactive, architectural, television and film projects. Involved in all aspects of production from conception through final delivery, including artistic direction, modeling, animation, shader development, lighting, rendering and compositing. Built a.

Provided lighting design, technical direction and project management for over 150 live shows and events around the United States. Worked closely with crews both local and remote to design, plan, build and run a variety of rigs under challenging logistical, resource and budgetary constraints in environments ranging from scorching beaches to ice-covered.

Served as a freelance director, producer, editor and director of photography for over 30 local cable television productions including short subject documentaries, talk shows and long-form narratives. Projects were produced in-studio as well as in the field, working closely with creative teams often spread between disparate physical locations.

Greater Seattle Area

Headed the effort to develop and execute the reporting and web-based UI components of a new RealServer/RealProxy automated test rig under heavy release deadline constraints. Responsibilities included requirements specification, architectural design, component implementation and system integration. Additionally, I provided the authorship of requirements.