Experience

Buckminster Fuller Institute

• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant & World-building Facilitator

  • Sep 2020 - 3 years 4 months

  Consultant and World-building Facilitator for BFI's Design Science Studio.



New York University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Instructor -- Integrated Media Arts (IMA) & Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)

  • Oct 2020 - 3 years 3 months

  Teaching fall & spring courses within NYU Tisch's ITP & IMA Low Res programs.



Guild of Future Architects

• United States
• Design
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Designer, Futurist Writers' Room

  • Aug 2019 - 4 years 5 months

  Designing/facilitating workshops, sessions, and team practices for the Guild of Future Architects' Futurist Writers' Room.



DC Comics

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Writer

  • May 2017 - 6 years 8 months

  Co-writer of BATMAN & THE SIGNAL for DC comics along with Scott Snyder.



Tenfold Gaming Initiative

• United States
• E-learning

• Founder

  • Jun 2016 - 7 years 7 months

  Greater New York City Area THE TENFOLD GAMING INITIATIVE offers an E-Sports initiative to high schools and colleges with the aims of emboldening student confidence, enhancing communication skills, fostering game design/coding skills, and building community through the development of a high school E-sports team. Our program concludes with an E-sports event filled with competition and a showcase of student designed games. During our pilot year, we at Tenfold discovered that while E-Sports increased student… Show more THE TENFOLD GAMING INITIATIVE offers an E-Sports initiative to high schools and colleges with the aims of emboldening student confidence, enhancing communication skills, fostering game design/coding skills, and building community through the development of a high school E-sports team. Our program concludes with an E-sports event filled with competition and a showcase of student designed games. During our pilot year, we at Tenfold discovered that while E-Sports increased student engagement...Game Design and Gaming journalism did the same while fulfilling STEAM Criteria. Teaching students about iteration through utilizing software, virtual reality workshops, learning how to code, creating/ designing original characters and environments, creating blogs about their individual processes provided minimums for their Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math requirements. So far the Tenfold Gaming Initiative has been featured in the Village Voice (http://www.villagevoice.com/news/21st-century-sports-inside-east-new-york-s-competitive-gaming-scene-8751717) has generated four E-Sports events (in East New York, the New School, and at Hostos College in the Bronx), facilitated Scholastic/Parsons College game design/VR workshops, and has introduced our students to allies at Microsoft, Local Projects, the NYU Game Center, and the NYU Assistive Tech Lab. Show less



Apple

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Today@Apple NYC Youth Program Mentor

  • Nov 2020 - Jun 2021

  Mentor, co-designer, and facilitator in Today@Apple NYC's 1st Youth Program.



New Museum of Contemporary Art

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• New Inc Interactive Experiences Track Member

  • Mar 2019 - Aug 2020

  Greater New York City Area NEW INC was cofounded by Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Karen Wong, Deputy Director of the New Museum in 2013. As the first museum-led cultural incubator, NEW INC was conceived of as a not-for-profit platform for furthering the Museum’s ongoing commitment to new art and new ideas. Now in Year 5, NEW INC’s membership model continues to support a diverse range of creative practitioners with a values-driven program and safe space for gathering and developing new creative projects… Show more NEW INC was cofounded by Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Karen Wong, Deputy Director of the New Museum in 2013. As the first museum-led cultural incubator, NEW INC was conceived of as a not-for-profit platform for furthering the Museum’s ongoing commitment to new art and new ideas. Now in Year 5, NEW INC’s membership model continues to support a diverse range of creative practitioners with a values-driven program and safe space for gathering and developing new creative projects and businesses. Show less



RLab

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mentor

  • Jul 2019 - Jun 2020

  Greater New York City Area RLab is the nation’s first city-funded center for research, entrepreneurship and education in virtual and augmented reality and related technologies.



Sundance Institute

• United States
• Movies and Sound Recording
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Creator of WHITEPAPER

  • Oct 2017 - Dec 2019

  Brooklyn, NY Quadrupling as a comic book narrative, mixed reality experience, a video game, and a graphic whitepaper of our near future — WHITEPAPER follows a financial AI as it journeys through a trajectory of proprietors, a Rogue AI bounty hunter, and a horde of technological marvels — until it finally unravels its mysterious origin and locates the author of the whitepaper which gave it sentience.

• Sundance New Frontier Fellow

  • Jun 2017 - Oct 2017

  Greater Los Angeles Area



Verizon

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Verizon 5G/RYOT/IFP Residency

  • Jan 2019 - Jun 2019

  Greater New York City Area/Los Angeles Thanks to the Verizon 5G/ Ryot Studios / IFP residency, the WHITEPAPER team can continually explore WHITEPAPER as an immersive narrative with XR capabilities (not limited to motion capture, volumetric capture, and cloud-based rendering)



Bloomberg Mayors Challenge (New Rochelle)

• 2018 Bloomberg Mayors Challenge Team Member (New Rochelle)

  • Apr 2018 - Jun 2019

  New Rochelle, New York Created a one-page comic/storyboard (and assisted with the design sprint) for the 2018 U.S. Mayors Challenge, sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies, a nationwide competition that encourages city leaders to uncover bold, inventive ideas that confront the toughest problems cities face. Problem: Private developers too often steer plans for new development because cities and their public stakeholders lack advanced tools to help them efficiently envision and evaluate their… Show more Created a one-page comic/storyboard (and assisted with the design sprint) for the 2018 U.S. Mayors Challenge, sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies, a nationwide competition that encourages city leaders to uncover bold, inventive ideas that confront the toughest problems cities face. Problem: Private developers too often steer plans for new development because cities and their public stakeholders lack advanced tools to help them efficiently envision and evaluate their options. Idea: The City of New Rochelle will deploy virtual-reality technology to allow city planners and citizens to visualize the development plans for buildings and public spaces, promoting more informed stakeholder engagement. Show less



Idea New Rochelle Innovation Residency

• Idea New Rochelle Fellow

  • Apr 2018 - Jun 2019

  New Rochelle, NY Cohort of the 1st IDEA New Rochelle's Innovation Residency. The purpose of the IDEA New Rochelle Innovation Residency is to support creative practitioners and researchers in the exploration and advancement of how emerging technologies can be used to share culture, tell stories, advance research and propel creative practice. Specialists in creative technology, sensory research, virtual reality, augmented reality, molecular gastronomy, artificial intelligence, performance art and other fields… Show more Cohort of the 1st IDEA New Rochelle's Innovation Residency. The purpose of the IDEA New Rochelle Innovation Residency is to support creative practitioners and researchers in the exploration and advancement of how emerging technologies can be used to share culture, tell stories, advance research and propel creative practice. Specialists in creative technology, sensory research, virtual reality, augmented reality, molecular gastronomy, artificial intelligence, performance art and other fields will foster international dialogue, collaboration, and innovation related to the future of research and creative expression. Show less



(HP) Hewlett-Packard/Technicolor Experience Center

• Panelist/Worldbuilding Workshop Facilitator Support

  • Jun 2018 - Jun 2018

  Greater Los Angeles Area Panelist for HP's Mars 'Imagining Complex Worlds' panel at the Technicolor Experience Center. Acted as facilitator support for a rapid-worldbuild aimed at generating narratives for the Mars: Home Planet project.



Pigeon Hole Productions/Kauffman Foundation

• 2018 Kansas City Worldbuilding Co-Facilitator

  • Jun 2018 - Jun 2018

  Kansas City, Missouri Area Co-Facilitator of Kansas City's 2018 future-based community worldbuild. Generated/Produced by PigeonHole Productions and sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation.



VRLA

• United States
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Panelist

  • May 2018 - May 2018

  Greater Los Angeles Area Panelist for VRLA's 'Imagining Complex Future Worlds: World Building for High Impact in Entertainment Media.



FORD CES 2018 Keynote Experience

• Writer/Worldbuilder

  • Nov 2017 - Dec 2017

  Greater Los Angeles Area On the writing team for the three tech stories displayed in FORD CEO Jim Hackett's CES Keynote Speech. Responsible for initiating the map for the Living Street section of the City of Tomorrow, generating tech-partner stories alongside a small team of writers, and writing the tech story scripts which were storyboarded and filmed for the keynote speech.



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Panelist

  • Oct 2017 - Oct 2017

  Greater New York City Area Panelist for the NYC'17 Comic Con Panel: "Over 75 Years of Batman" | Talks at Google.



The Leadership Program

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Facilitator

  • Feb 2006 - Apr 2017

  Greater New York City Area Responsible for recruiting for and facilitating after-school drama, comics, and video gaming clubs. Generated a team-building/self-esteem oriented curriculum to disadvantaged students in order to enhance their personal development/educational learning skills.



Black Mask Productions

• Creator/X'ED

  • Dec 2015 - Jan 2017

  Creator of the comic book series "X'ED." Published by Black Mask Studios.



DC Comics

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 400 - 500 Employee

• 2016 Writers Workshop

  • Sep 2016 - Dec 2016

  Selected as a workshop member of a thirteen week course, developed and run by esteemed comic book writer and teacher Scott Snyder. Delivered two scripts while learning the essential skills for surviving and excelling in comic book industry.



BLACK CARD

• Creator

  • Jun 2014 - Jun 2016

  Writer of the creator-owned short film/IP ‘Black Card’ which aired on HBO and CINEMAX.