Résumé
I turn emerging technology into lasting organizational capability.
Creative technology leader and hands-on visual practitioner with 20+ years building products and production systems. Led Can It Fit?, which reported 700% user growth; built and improved Lightstorm’s pipeline, enabling approximately 30× team throughput. Current Sphere work spans project leadership, many production tools, and AI-assisted workflows.
Career highlights
Evidence of increased capability.
Leadership profile
Leader, builder, and visual practitioner.
I help organizations navigate moments when new technology has moved faster than the workflows around it. I reduce uncertainty through research and prototyping, then build the products, pipelines, roles, and review systems required to deliver reliably at scale.
My experience spans feature-film VFX, commercial CG, real-time visualization, augmented reality, product development, post visualization, AI-assisted workflows, and large-format experiential media.
Professional experience
Selected leadership and product work.
Sphere Entertainment Company
Lead ExoSphere Content Creator
- Lead original, client, and live-event content for the Exosphere, translating creative ambition into repeatable workflows for a new large-scale medium.
- Built and helped deliver many production tools and workflows. ExosPreviewer and ExosMapper support earlier visual validation and flexible spherical mapping; these two examples have pending patent applications.
- Partner across creative, production, pipeline, and engineering teams to convert discoveries into reusable systems and operating practices.
- Contributed to 20+ Sphere productions, including the Moon, NHL Draft, celestial studies, and other signature Exosphere moments.
Lightstorm Entertainment
Post Visualization Department Lead
- Designed the Post Visualization operating model, production pipeline, review cadence, templates, and staffing strategy supporting Avatar 2 and Avatar 3.
- Increased approved weekly throughput from roughly one shot to a sustained 30+, with peaks near 50, by standardizing workflows, clarifying ownership, and reducing handoff friction.
- Led creation of Jim Cameron-approved creative targets used by Wētā FX for final visual-effects work.
- Scaled the department from 1 to 18 specialists after the operating system made quality, onboarding, and delivery predictable.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
Immersive Design and Marketing Product Strategist, Consultant
Developed immersive visualization and marketing concepts that made an emerging mobility platform understandable to stakeholders and supported design and communication decisions.
Edmunds
Director of Immersive Technology
- Applied Edmunds’ Agile and rapid-prototyping culture to immersive media, giving senior leadership tangible evidence of customer value and product potential before major engineering investment.
- Prototyped in Unity on Google Tango and Microsoft HoloLens, then shifted to SceneKit as an Apple launch partner.
- Led Can It Fit? from AR prototypes into delivery, with reported 700% user growth in its first few months and press recognition for practical ARKit utility.
- Led two Interactive 360 projects generating approximately $2M in direct revenue for Edmunds, approximately $1M per project.
WET
Digital Futurist
- Expanded visualization inside a multidisciplinary experiential design company through VR, AR, 360 capture, real-time graphics, and emerging display research.
- Developed an Unreal and Houdini visualization workflow that made complex unbuilt fountain experiences easier to review and communicate.
- Used immersive capture and executive storytelling to support approval of approximately $15M in Bellagio upgrades.
- Elevated visualization practices through mentoring, pipeline modernization, and adoption of contemporary VFX tools.
Absolute Post
Head of Computer Graphics, U.S.
Directed U.S. CG operations, client delivery, resource planning, and capability expansion; introduced cloud-enabled workflows and expanded into episodic television.
DreamWorks Animation
Lead Compositing Artist and Senior Lighter
Led visual craft and shot execution across animated feature productions.
Sony Pictures Imageworks · Disney Animation · ImageMovers Digital
Senior Lighting / Compositing
Rhythm & Hues
Lead Lighting Technical Director
Leadership
What I build.
- Multidisciplinary teams and departments
- Product vision and emerging-technology strategy
- Creative and technical operating systems
- Research, rapid prototyping, and validation
- Executive alignment and stakeholder communication
- Mentoring and capability development
Tools and platforms
How I work.
Nuke, Maya, Arnold, Redshift, Katana, Adobe Creative Cloud, Unreal Engine, Unity, 3ds Max, and V-Ray.
AI-assisted image and video workflows, immersive visualization, augmented reality, post visualization, and large-format experiential media.
Additional work
Selected credits and intellectual property.
Feature animation and visual effects
Disney Animation · DreamWorks Animation · Sony Pictures Imageworks · ImageMovers Digital
Innovation, consulting, and independent studios
Hyperloop TT (Consulting) · Bad Robot · Moonbot Studios · Blur · Duncan Studio
Intellectual property
Two pending Sphere patent applications associated with ExosPreviewer and ExosMapper. These are two examples among many tools built or helped deliver.
29 credited film productions, 20+ Sphere productions without individual screen credits, and additional commercial and uncredited work.
Education and certification
Foundation in visual craft and delivery.
MFA, 3D Visual Communication Design — The Ohio State University
BFA, Computer Animation — Ringling College of Art and Design
Certified ScrumMaster