May 2025 – Nov 2025 · 6 mos · Hybrid

• Brought on as the sole recruiter at Nickelodeon to rebrand how the company attracts and engages talent.
• Led full cycle recruiting across all departments while introducing new methods for sourcing, tracking, and presenting candidates to productions.
• Spearheaded LightBox planning- driving Nickelodeon’s presence at LBX.
• Contract concluded following the Paramount-Skydance merger.

Jan 2024 – Dec 2024 · 11 mos

• Developed and expanded global sourcing functionality following the acquisition of Animal Logic
• (Sydney & Vancouver), enhancing talent acquisition strategies across multiple regions.
• Spearheaded the creation of an employer brand strategy, collaborating closely with outreach,
• events, recruiting, and marketing teams to increase visibility and attract top talent.
• Conducted talent mapping and data density analysis, monitoring key executive moves, studio
• news and industry trends to generate targeted talent across multiple departments.

Jul 2023 – Jan 2024 · 6 mos

• Built out the Above the Line talent infrastructure for Netflix Animation, partnering with content
• managers and directors.
• Developed and executed tailored recruitment strategies to attract high-caliber above the line
• candidates, partnering closely with creative, content and production teams to understand their
• specific needs.
• Fostered strong relationships with internal stakeholders and hiring managers to ensure a
• seamless hiring experience and high-quality candidate selection.
• Speaking on panels at Conventions, Companies, Schools and Studios; Kidscreen, RiseUp
• Animation, Netflix, and Netflix Animation AMAs.

Nov 2019 – Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• The first Feature Animation Researchers at Netflix, helping scale the studio from the ground up
• in its start up phase, overseeing the full-cycle recruitment process from talent sourcing to
• onboarding.
• Managed end-to-end recruitment processes, including job postings, candidate screening,
• interviews, negotiations, and final hires, delivering results against aggressive timelines.
• Using social media platforms (instagram and twitter) to better source and be involved in the
• talent market.
• Spearheading my own panel in partnership with WeAreNetflix- Indian Creatives at Netflix, with
• a goal to increase our outreach and engagement in the Indian artist community, cultivating
• diversity, and including a database of underrepresented artists for future recruitment efforts.

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

• South Asians in Visual Arts (SAVA) is an organization whose mission is to cultivate a vibrant South Asian community in the Animation, Games, VFX, and AR/VR industries. We prioritize diversity, inclusivity, and elevating South Asian narratives in mainstream media. Together, we inspire growth, innovation, and creativity while embracing our cultural heritage. Let's build bridges, amplify our voices, and leave a mark on the world of Visual Arts.

Apr 2019 – Jul 2019 · 3 mos · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

• Helping with finishing up The Addams Family movie. Running cloth and hair shots for various characters on the show.

Apr 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

• John Wick 3-
• Wind development for John Wick's jacket cloth simulation.
• Running shots with wind dev.
• Spiderman: Far From Home-
• Shot sculpting
• Detective Pikachu-
• Cloth-rig setup for Tim’s jacket; responsible for all corresponding shots with Pikachu to get paw and jacket interaction.
• Running skin and fur simulation using the carbon plug-in within Houdini.
• Helping out comp and match move by aligning jacket to the plate on certain shots.
• Game of Thrones-
• Assisted in a couple of cloth rig builds.
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald-
• Running cloth shots for Grindelwald, the Henchmen and Carriage Driver’s.
• Skin, muscle, harness, connectors, and rein simulation for the thestrals.

Oct 2017 – Apr 2018 · 6 mos · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

• Running cloth and hair shots for various characters in “Hotel Transylvania 3”.
• Shot sculpted and shot finaled shots based on art direction for the show.

Jan 2017 – Sep 2017 · 8 mos · Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area

• Assisting with the development of Cinesite's feature animation CFX department.
• Creating a new cloth pipeline and various cloth rigs for Sony Pictures Animation, "The Star".
• Mentoring artists on setting up and running cloth shots.
• Working on cloth simulation for sequences of the movie.
• Groomed a few characters using the yeti plugin.

Jul 2016 – Oct 2016 · 3 mos · Los Angeles, CA

• Working on cloth and hair simulation shots for Beast, a fully CG character in the live action presentation of Walt Disney's "Beauty and the Beast".
• Responsible for setting up shots, addressing technical and artistic notes, and responding to art direction from CFX supervisors and VFX supervisor.

Sep 2015 – Jul 2016 · 10 mos · Dallas, Texas

• Responsible for character grooming and cloth development work for Reel FX’s next feature film, “Wish Police”.
• Groomed Edith’s hair for Universal’s Minon’s Ride.
• Assisted the commercial department in simulating cloth for various Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle commercials.
• Built cloth rigs for Raphael and Leonardo and developed a system to get high density rigs simulating in under two minutes. Documented the process in Reel FX's confluence page and helped mentor another artist on the show.

Dec 2014 – May 2015 · 5 mos · Dallas, Texas

• Responsible for learning and doing the following, for the film "Rock Dog":
• Groomed archive based bushes, shrubbery and trees for environments in Xgen.
• Various cloth simulated shots on multiple characters, using Maya's nCloth solver.
• Groomed the ends of the dart fur on dart assets in Xgen.
• Had an entire layout set to groom on- vines and grass, using MudBox and Xgen.