Professional Experience
Sound Design Manager, Meta
2020 - present
- Manage a team of creative direct reports and lead project teams across multiple product groups: collaborate on product roadmaps and strategy, and manage cross-functional budgets and timelines with a horizontal product group, (this includes talent hiring, training, and management, as well as legal contracts and finance negotiations with relevant partner teams.) and support a team of direct reports (managers and individual contributors) in career development and a larger team of Interactive creative and operational disciplines within sound design in operational solutions and best practices.
- Establish and lead the Creative Operations team: execute vision with a team of talented project managers and producers on how a creative team within the Facebook Inc ecosystem can successfully maintain quality across all sonic experiences, and guide the team through development and execution of OKRs, improve intra-team collaborative efforts and communications, and provide clear direction and feedback on operational challenges and improvements.
“Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
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Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Audio Producer, Facebook
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
Audio Production Lead for Interactive features and productions, including Instagram Superzoom capture mode, Portal Story Time AR experience, and Fable Studio's VR experience, Wolves in the Walls.
- Manages end-to-end interactive audio production, including: asset development pipelines, coordination of technical implementation, and cross-discipline communication management. Facilitates audio design for production and development hardware and software platforms.
Operations Lead for Facebook's Immersive Audio group, a team dedicated to audio development for augmented, virtual, and mixed reality experiences.
- Established AR audio design team through development of process and pipeline, cross-functional team communication, and defined role responsibilities in an evolving technology space. Actively building and leading production team working in AR, VR, and 360 spatial audio design, creating common through-lines for task management, workflows, and production language. Manages a multi-discipline team of technical and operational contributors.
Audio Ads Production Coordinator, Pandora
July 2015 - Jan 2017
Manage assets and coordinate production on audio advertising spots
- Coordinate audio campaigns: copy-edit scripts, clarify and secure necessary assets, establish timelines, and manage expectations for production and client services teams
- Ensure ads meet technical and creative guidelines;; provide creative solutions for issues
Partner with teams to create protocols and processes for ad products and content guidelines
- Collect data points, analyze existing protocols/systems, identify issues and provide creative solutions to streamline and structure a scalable workflow
- Train and mentor team members and partner teams on new protocols and guidelines
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