
Senior Product Designer | Studio XD
Netflix · Full-time
Dec 2018 - Present
• 5 yrs 10 mosDesign collaboration and productivity tools to support teams across all phases of production and create the world's most binge-worthy shows and films.

Avid Technology
Dec 2011 - Dec 2018
Sr. Principal Product Designer
Sep 2013 - Dec 2018
• 5 yrs 4 mos• Identify workflow needs in scripted/unscripted television, feature film, news, sports, web original, government, advertising workgroups and design systems that enable new ways to create, collaborate, distribute content across the various stages and personas of post-production.
• Research media & entertainment markets and associated post-production trends (via direct client visits, ongoing case studies, beta programs and Customer Association events) to design, development, and refine the MediaCentral and Media Suite line-up.
• Define usability and performance metrics for new features to guide architect & engineering teams to deliver precision product builds to market under deadline.
• Evaluate, prioritize and advise overall MediaCentral and Media Suite roadmap, marketing strategies, and partnerships. Investigate and incorporate emerging technologies to permit workgroups to create more efficiently, across larger distances, more securely over various platforms, etc.
• Work in close partnership with other Avid Product Design & Management teams such as Avid Media Composer, Pro Tools, NEXIS Shared Storage to tie together end-to-end functionality and joint integration with 3rd party partners (camera, I/O hardware, software via APIs, etc.).
• Served top worldwide media enterprises, including: Disney, Marvel, Industrial Light & Magic, Viacom, HBO, Warner Brothers, Fox, NBC Universal, ABC, CBS, CBC, NHK, Telemundo, Univision, Discovery, A&E, BET, dock10, SVT, YLE, ZDF, Medialaan, NBC Sports, Miami Heat, Golden State Warriors, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers, many more.
• http://www.avid.com/us/about-avid (Leading software and hardware for the film, television, music industries).
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Senior Product Designer
May 2012 - Sep 2013
• 1 yr 5 mos• Identify workflow needs in scripted/unscripted television, feature film, news, sports, web original, government, advertising workgroups and design systems that enable new ways to create, collaborate, distribute content across the various stages and personas of post-production.
• Work in close partnership with other Avid Product Design & Management teams such as Avid Media Composer, Pro Tools, NEXIS Shared Storage to tie together end-to-end functionality and joint integration with 3rd party partners (camera, I/O hardware, software via APIs, etc.).
• Served top worldwide media enterprises, including: Disney, Marvel, Industrial Light & Magic, Viacom, HBO, Warner Brothers, Fox, NBC Universal, ABC, CBS, CBC, NHK, Telemundo, Univision, Discovery, A&E, BET, dock10, SVT, YLE, ZDF, Medialaan, NBC Sports, Miami Heat, Golden State Warriors, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers, many more.
Post Solutions Manager
Dec 2011 - May 2012
• 6 mos• Research post market and workflow trends (via direct client visits, case studies or through Customer Advisory Boards) to identify product, partnership and marketing opportunities.
• Design, prioritize and promote workflow solutions using Avid’s complete portfolio of existing products, and specify new products or functionality as needed.
• Evaluate and advise overall product roadmaps, marketing strategies, partnerships and acquisitions.
• Combine upcoming market and technology trends into a prioritized and effective long-term strategy to drive measurable revenue growth.
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Post Consultant & Supervisor
Freelance · Freelance
Jan 2005 - Jan 2017
• 12 yrs 1 mo• Provided budget, hardware, workflow consultation and NLE software training (Avid MC/Symphony and Apple FCP) to a variety of independent filmmakers, post houses, advertising agencies, and universities.
• Designed, budgeted and built new edit suites and machine rooms (including video routing, hardware I/O, storage, color monitoring, IT networking) to create new revenue opportunities within existing workflows.
• Guided each client to get the most out of their budgets by helping design profitable future-proof workflows, industry-ready curricula for students, manage/migrate complex projects to online & mix facilities and provide training to empower in-house staff.
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Editor
Trailblazer Studios · Full-time
Jan 2003 - Dec 2011
• 9 yrsOffline & Online Editor: TV Series, Documentaries and Commercials. Clients included:
TLC, Discovery Channel, PBS, Fine Living Network, Animal Planet, National Geographic, Telemundo, NHL Network, Fox Soccer Channel, Travelocity, Rubbermaid, Sony, Sheetz, Samsung, Georgia Pacific, Sears Dental, Sony Ericcson, Audi, Hanes, Virgin Mobile, Sealy, First Citizen’s Bank, NHL Carolina Hurricanes, Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Louisville, Princeton University, Hardee's/Carl's Jr, Stearns & Foster.
• Edited commercials and tv programs for a national base of agency and network clients as well as regional independents. Provided color correction, graphics finishing, blurring, timeline formatting and mastering for commercials and tv programs within network broadcast specs; delivered independent feature documentaries to festival circuit, BD/DVD and web distribution.
• Served as Director of in-house Post Operations Council to research, budget, design, build, maintain and manage profit-driven SAN-based work environment.
• Launched a national roster of freelance editors and a composed tv series-specific guidelines (project/bin templates, graphics, offline-to-online, more) to enable highly efficient remote post workflows & asset management.
• Developed marketing and operational models to bolster company’s market standing.
• Worked as a lead member on a core staff of artists who helped drive twelve-fold overall company revenue growth from 2003 to 2011.
• Initiated, designed and moderated a company wide cross-training program (Scrub University) and a guest speaker series (An Evening With Series) to inspire a progressive business culture and outreach to region’s indie & pro film communities.
• Contributions or appearances in RealScreen Magazine, POST Magazine, SHOOT and Videography.
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Editor
Dystopia Post (Freelance) · Full-time
Jan 2000 - Jan 2003
• 3 yrs 1 moOffline & Assistant Editor: TV Series, Documentaries and Commercials. Clients included:
VH1 Music Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, TV Tokyo, Zs Music Inc. Japan, IBM, NHL Carolina Hurricanes, NCSU Football, NCSU Basketball, Glen-Gery Brick, David Crane Agency, Crittenden Advertising, French | West | Vaughn, I-40 Films.
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Instructor
Japan Exchange and Teaching Program(me) (JET) · Full-time
Aug 1998 - Sep 2000
• 2 yrs 2 mos• Prepared lessons for and taught English to ~2000 junior high students each academic year
• Created, edited and distributed two parallel-text English-Japanese comics series
• Assisted in the design of an English immersion and world cultures classroom
• Prepared materials for and participated in demonstration classes for the Japanese Education Ministry and other English teachers from the prefecture
• Facilitated sister city relationships with Baggio, Philippines and Durbuy, Belgium by translating official correspondence and by helping host foreign dignataries
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