FATBELLY PRODUCTIONS       

San Francisco, CA             2009 – present

www.fatbellycreative.com

Owner & Producer

Founded, built & manages a creative house specializing in visual storytelling, media arts, marketing videos, documentaries, social media, & live events. Regularly drive clients’ success by cultivating client relationships, crafting media campaign strategies, growing business by gaining trust & managing personnel. Work extensively with renowned innovators on varied projects.  Builds solid relationships with Tech leaders & other major personalities.

• Executes creative consulting with client goals, expectations, and budgets

• Advances individual client projects into multiple long tail media strategy

• Manages client expectations and timelines

• Provides extensive experience in storytelling development while engaging with client and customer needs

• Possess expertise in production focused on Virtual Reality, Augmented Realty, and Artificial Intelligence

• Oversees productions from creative development to post production locally and international

• Coordinated extended network of internal and external production teams

• Works with large budgets over 100K and catered budgets for smaller clients

• Enhanced ability to produce engaging content, with projects garnering close to 2 million views.

• Utilizes understanding of data analytics and audience engagement to produce compelling content

• Formulates long tail media strategy for delivery

PROJECTS:

Elon Musk (Founder, Tesla), Craig R. Barrett & Paul S. Otellini (Intel CEOs), Carl Bass (Autodesk CEO), Peter Thiel (PayPal CEO), Brian Chesky (Airbnb CEO & Founder), Aaron Levie (Box CEO), Dick Costolo (Twitter CEO), Larry Harvey (Burning Man Founder), Ed Lee & Willie Brown (SF Mayors), David Hilliard (Black Panther Party Leader).

FUTURE FIRES

San Francisco, CA             2015 – present

www.futurefires.com

Partner & Media Director

Future Fires is a Bay Area new media arts company presenting powerful new work at the intersection of art and technology including Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Projection Mapping, Interactive and Immersive environments.

• Developed the Media Company within Future Fires

• Manages the creation of original content and oversees curated content for the Future Fires media channels

• Drives marketing initiatives, including but not limited to: branding, advertising, and sponsorship

• Produces media for live event productions

• Engineers strategy for digital media and social media engagement

• Co-develops sponsorship packages with Sales and Sponsorship teams to create long tail media and marketing opportunities

PROJECTS:

Luminary & Luminary (Expanded) events, Microsoft Envision, DZINE and others.

ADDITIONAL WORK HISTORY

CONNECTED SOCIAL MEDIA                                                                                               Palo Alto, CA    2009 – 2010

Producer & Director of Photography

Developed media content and packages for fortune 500 campaines such as Intel, HP, WebEx, others.

• Worked closely with the clients to understand and obtain a deep understanding of products and projects in order to develop content for online distribution and press media packages

• Produced projects with a hands on approach from start to finish

• Managed client expectations, budgets, and production teams for location production and post production

PODTECH                                                                                                                  Palo Alto, CA    2007 – 2009

Producer & Director of Photography

Curated and developed social media content in the US, Europe & Asia. Succeeded in building & managing PodTech Studios (in-house production studio); created programming for Intel, HP, Apple, Autodesk, WebEx, many others.

• Co-founded “The Reboot,” a global video gaming show that quickly grew to be one of the most popular online gaming shows, featuring real-time news & reviews of all things gaming, sponsored by Intel & FiveFour Clothing

• Produced multi-channel content creation for PodTech’s online tech magazine targeting influential bloggers

• Created projects and led teams: served as point-person to department heads, designers, & web developers on a range of projects