Producer of digital media/films, projections/installations, VFX/animations, mobile apps, commercials
Case Study: The Game Is Up feature film
Was the co producer, lead editor and post production manager for an award winning documentary, “The Game Is Up: Disillusioned Trump Voters Tell Their Stories” Currently on AMAZON, YouTube, and Tubi. Remotely lead a team of 6 editors, overseeing the editing process and post production supervision of a documentary project during the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Designed festival package resulting in 25 winning festival awards internationally, including Accolade Global Film Competition’s Oscar Qualifying Award of Excellence and Award of Merit for Editing • Mastered distribution and marketing of film, receiving over 1 million views on SVOD/TVOD/AVOD
OTHER HATS: Music Editor, Sound Design, Animation Support, Film Marketing and Web Designer.
COOL FACTOR: Working virtually with different departments in 5 different timezones from production to post. Finished, festivaled and distributed, receiving multiple awards for the film and distribution successful distribution garnering an imdb rating of 8.7 and over 1.2 million views.
Case Study: ANICCA at Reed College Performing Arts Center in Portland, Or.: with Minh Tran & Company
Was asked to designed 360* projections, using 6 linked projectors so that the performance could be viewed from all sides, and all of the projections would be visible from every seat. Ended up using 6 projectors in a 16:1 aspect ratio for 55 minutes of non-reiterative contiguous video content.
OTHER HATS: Editor, Designer, Animator, Videographer, Video Tech.
COOL FACTOR: Surrounding dancers in a performance space with 8’ x 128’ video screens that are hung 10’ in the air around RED MARLEY with the audience seated around the perimeter looking in, creating an awesome and unique voyeuristic performance experience.
Case Study: Jumping Pages, Inc.
Managed $500,000 start-up team of four in the development of six children's story apps starting with the original iPad (OS platform) through iPad 4 and Android.
Created budgets, storyboards and pitch presentations for investors ($150k – $4.5m).
Staffed teams up to 25 for each app, managed & led teams to develop design solutions during pre-UI era.
App development was just taking off in 2012 when I began working with Jumping Pages on these exciting new products for children.
OTHER HATS: Editor, Music Editor, Sound Design, Animator, Developer, Voice-over Artist.
COOL FACTOR: My son now plays with apps that I helped create before he was born and since some of the character voices are me, it's fun to watch him make a personal connection.
Case Study: Fly Agency and Mobile Video: Neater Feeder
Produced 3D animation with water flowing FX.
Led team in finding cost effective solutions for animation; final choices: Cinema 4D for the elements and open source Blender for the water.
My post production company was asked to create animation that would integrate well with live action. On a limited budget, using Blender, we produced great results for this 45-second commercial spot and created the animation in one week.
OTHER HATS: Editor, Team Leader, Designer.
COOL FACTOR: Learning how to animate water!
