STATEMENT /
| Results-oriented producer with an exceptional record of achievement in AR/VR technology and consumer products. Primary focus is on strategy, product expansion, organizational planning, and user insights. Significant experience in prototyping, conceptualizing, evaluating, and executing AR/VR experiences as well as growing established community-oriented programs. Community leadership honed in co-leading AR/VR Women and Allies, a community of 6,000+ members partnering with organizations like AWE, Oculus, and nReal. |
EXPERIENCE /
| Macy’s Inc. | Producer New York, NY Produced training and development films for sales and marketing. Communicated to a workforce of over 30,0000 employees to drive sales initiatives training and promotions. Launched company’s first YouTube series, and user-generated video contest starring Chef Tyler Florence achieving one million dollars in sales. Divisional Employee of the Year. | 2002-2013 |
EDUCATION /
| California Institute of the Arts | B.F.A. in Film/Video Santa Clarita, CA Thesis: Immigrant of the Year – 16mm documentary about my mother and grandmother emigrating to the U.S. from Mexico City through an inter-racial marriage in 1956. | 1997-2001 |
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP /
| Co-Founder, AR/VR Women and Allies Organize Support and Moderate Online Industry Network | June 2017- | |
| Director, Futurists-in-Residence Program Distributed Magic Leap headset to participants. Presented panel at AWE 2019. Funded by CCI. | July 2019 |
RELEVANT PROJECTS /
| Producer, Host [link] “Zero To Start VR Podcast” funded by Oculus | 2020- | |
| Lead Producer and Developer [link] “War of the Worlds” at Bose AR Hackathon | July 2019 | |
| Developer and Designer [link] “111 Seeds” funded by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Grant VR landscape made with Unity for Bio-Ofrenda live performance in the Bamboo Ct. | 2018-2019 | |
| Producer [link] “Ice Breakers” at MIT Reality Virtually Hackathon Mobile AR social networking game demo made with ARCore that rewards players for breaking down the ice walls between them. When the wall comes down, everyone wins. | Jan 2019 |
RELEVANT AWARDS /
| Oculus Launch Pad Participant in Oculus accelerator program | 2019 | |
| Oculus Start Independent developer program | July 2019 |
SKILLS /
| Technical – Unity (Oculus SDK, Bose AR SDK Vuforia, VRTK)Devices/Platforms – Android, Bose, Oculus | ||
| Creative – Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, Aero, Media Encoder, XD) Snap Lens Studio (created 2 filters) [link] |
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