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“Get it wrong, fast.” I firmly believe in this approach from years of experience. Clients often struggle to articulate their vision, and designers invariably will have revisions. In our field, it’s crucial to avoid investing to much efforts into a concept that ultimately doesn’t align with the client’s, this leads to a setback and feelings of defeat. Creativity thrives when we embrace the wrong and iterate quickly to find the right.

Career Experience

Production Plus Technologies | 2011 - Current

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Lead Scenic Designer

I collaborate closely with clients to bring their ideas to life, digitally. Working hand-in-hand with them, I ensured their vision is captured while also keeping in communication with our internal scenic-production team to create designs that can feasibly be executed. I’ve worked extensively with lead draftsmans to understand the practical aspects of the post-design phase, helping to manage expectations and avoid over-committing. Taking a pragmatic approach to design, I can streamlined production processes to meet tight deadlines. The final deliverables included photo-realistic image renderings, animated walk-throughs, and scaled VR and AR experiences.

True to Scaled Designing • Production Building • Imersive deisgning with AR & VR • Point Cloud Scanning • Texturing • Lighting • Animation • Character Rigging • Real-time Rendering • Non-Organic Modeling • Web Streaming • Cinema 4D • Unreal Engine • Redshift/Octane

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Print Project Manager

I am responsible for overseeing and coordinating all print-related components of every project that comes through our doors. This is across various scopes. Encompassing pre-production with recommendations and templating, best practices and workflow for production from proofing to print and finishing, and finally on-site coordination with installers, clients, and venue. Ensuring everything is accounted for and installed with the highest of care. During pre-production, this can entail conducting on-site assessments with or without the client to identify branding opportunities in collaboration with principal designers. Working hand-in-hand with the Creative and Production leads, I collaborate closely with both to construct and maintain comprehensive tracking details of all stages of the project. Branding placements, specifications, layouts, approval, and installer visuals are all being tracked per project. I provide recommendations for materials, signage structures, and personalized solutions to meet the distinctive requirements of each project, regardless of scale.

This role demands adept project management skills, and the ability to juggle multiple projects concurrently, while effectively collaborating with both internal and external teams. I am accustomed to thriving in ever-changing and fast-paced environments with tight deadlines that usually don’t take place between 9-5/M-F.

Small, Wide & Grand Formats • Client Proofing & Approval • Dye-Sublimation • CNC Routing • Vinyl Cutting • Material Expert • Indoor & Outdoor Applications • UL & Fire Certifcations • Finishing Applications • Adobe Suite • Caldera • ONYX •Topaz AI Suite

 

Technology Generalist & Development

Our goal of leveraging new technology to find innovative solutions for our clients, constantly exploring new avenues. Projection mapping, LED control, web coding, AR & VR experiences, and now the emerging realm of AI. Finding the intersection of creativity and technology, offering our clients unique and unparalleled experiences they’ve never encountered before.

Projection Mapping • LED Programming • Xcode Programming • UI Design • Filming • Lighting • Photography • Web Design • Visual Effects • Video Editing • Motion Graphics • Basic Carpentry • Raspberry Pi/Arduino building •
AI Ethics • ChatGPT • Opensource LLM • Stable Diffusion • Image Training • Dall-E • LLM Training • AI Voice Dictation • Machine Learning

Remote Event & UI Designer

When the Pandemic hit, I needed to shift my skill-set from Scenic Event Designer to Web Event Designer. I built designs for small and large events. For mobile & desktop. Recorded events, remote live events & studio live events. I was part of the entire process from initial concept designs, to working with clients, editing video, motion graphics & day of monitoring of speaker personnel.

Adobe XD | HTML5 | CSS | FlexBox | Zoom | vMix | Adobe After Effects | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Premiere |

Interesting fact

On the weekends I spend my time as an Assistant PADI Instructor
teaching new students how to SCUBA Dive.

Education

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Columbia College Chicago

2009 - Bachelor of Arts
Film & Video - Focusing on Post-Production Visual Effects
| Visual Effects Techniques| Compositing | Lighting | Motion Graphics | Editing | | Sound Design | Post Audio | Screenwriting | Production | Script Analysis | Development & Pre Production | Acting Techniques |

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Western Illinois University

2003 - 2006
Graphic Communication & Instructional Technology
| Digital Image Manipulation | Web Design | Electronic Desktop Publishing | Graphic Presentations | Page Design | Graphic Illustration |

Skills

3D

Texturing • Lighting • Animation • Character Rigging • Real-time Rendering • Virtual Reality • Augmented Reality • Scaled Design • GPU Render Engine • Non-Organic Modeling • Web Streaming

Print & Graphic

Onyx & Caldera Rip • Adobe Creative Suite • Image manipulation • Art-file Proofing • Large Format • Grand Format • Latex, UV & Dye-sub Printing • Print/Vinyl Install • Job Nesting • Client Approvals • Vector & Raster formats

Live Web & Motion Graphics

vMix • HTML5 • CSS • Flexbox • Adobe XD • Adobe After Effects • Zoom • Skype • Melone

Additional

Projection Mapping • LED Programming • Xcode Programming • UI Design • Filming • Lighting • Photography • Web Design • Visual Effects • Motion Graphics • Basic Carpentry • Point Cloud Scanning • Raspberry Pi/Arduino building