Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · Global · Hybrid

• Transformed Strategy, Production Finance, FP&A, and Controllership/Accounting across Eyeline VFX, Studios, and Research Labs after Netflix's acquisition of the legacy Scanline business in 2022. Established budgeting, forecasting, reporting, pricing, utilization monitoring, and other key financial and operational KPIs at Studio and Project levels for dynamic global creative enterprise operating in 6 countries across UCAN / EMEA / APAC.
• Drove cost reduction and re-set the business's scale before, during, and after unprecedented SAG/WGA strikes.
• Structured approach to Generative AI production investment and execution plan alongside leadership team, unlocking significant early investment to establish leadership position in professional generative content creation.
• Developed data management & analytics approach, moving financial and operational data to lakehouse to unlock rapid generative dashboard creation and insights.
• Oversaw team of ~20 across finance disciplines and levels; collaborated with hundreds of x-functional financial and operations colleagues within Eyeline and Netflix.

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · San Luis Obispo, CA

• Outward Development is a hospitality real estate development firm focused on indoor/outdoor living. We are currently undergoing entitlements for a modern cabin hotel in Paso Robles, California.

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

• Responsible for near-term and long-term strategy for Post Production, VFX, and Animation Studio efforts at Netflix. Focus on strategic planning, underwriting major transactions and commercial agreements, infrastructure roadmaps, developing in-house production services, build-vs-buy decisions

Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Advised clients on topics including:
• Strategic R&D insourcing / outsourcing
• Competitive headcount / cost benchmarking and best practice implementation
• Acquisitions and divestitures
• Transformation, change management, and risk management
• Worked in Semiconductor, Satellite Design/Manufacturing, and Midstream Oil & Gas industries.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 · 4 yrs · Culver City, CA

• Developed show and facility tools/pipelines including:
• Unittest-like framework for Maya scene testing & publishing used throughout the digital character pipeline
• Procedural environment rigging library and animation UI
• Mass scene modification tool to perform sequence-wide asset updates, playblasts, and re-translations on distributed compute infrastructure,
• Crowd system
• Shot-asset synchronization system to streamline asset delivery from animation to lighting
• Automated environment vegitation publish system to map and synchronize vegitation geometry matrices with environment ground-plane matrices when new environments are published.
• Vine rig system / plugin
• Rigged characters including Omega Mimic ("Edge of Tomorrow"), various characters in "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2"
• Primarily worked in Python, MEL, and C++

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Lead at Gnomon Studios. Responsible for character setup and pipeline development.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr · Greater Atlanta Area

• Worked with various public and private clients to assess IT controls as part of Sarbanes Oxley audits

Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 · 0 mo · Greater New York City Area

• Transaction/Pitch experience includes IPO, add-on common stock, hostile M&A, and LBO across various Healthcare industries including Hospitals, Managed Care, Biotechnology, Medical Technology, and Drug Manufacturers.