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My work and life experiences are what have formed me as a visual effects and editorial professional, photographer and as a college instructor. I enjoy doing the work and also teaching what I know to the next generation of professionals.
To me, they all blend together. New and different projects with new challenges feeds my natural curiosity. Students ask a lot of unique questions which makes me think which then feeds back into my own curiosity and makes me grow as a professional. Seeing the light bulb of understanding go off in my students gives me a thrill that is hard to describe.
I’m passionate about the work, whether it is film, commercial, corporate or documentary.
I love projects where I can use a variety of skills whether they are on the production side with lighting/shooting, motion control and motion capture or post production with compositing, editing and 3d work.
Specialties: Video(shooting and lighting), still photography, compositing/editing, 3D, motion capture and motion control. If there is a creative challenge, I’m interested.
As a design leader, I am a strategic partner to Product, Marketing, CS, & Sales. I regularly strategize with stakeholders on what users need or gaps in the market and then rapidly lead engineering+design teams on high impact projects. I love bringing an innovative vision to life one iteration at a time, especially if the problem space is ambiguous and complex!
I bring together product & sales data with user research to derisk what features to build next and to confirm that they are delivering on their promised value.
In my 17 years of design I have led all aspects of the design process and managed teams through it - from sketches and wire-frames, interactive prototypes, conducting and synthesizing user research, leading workshops, persona creation, and pixel perfect designs on all devices.
Other skill:
- growth hacking
- design systems
- Enterprise
- Marketing & SEO
- workshop facilitation
- design strategy
- design mentorship / coaching
- UI craft
- user research
- agency management
- generative ai
- analytics 
