CREATIVE RESUME

RECENT WORK EXPERIENCE:

Showrunner for How to Survive - Underknown (Full-Time) - Jan 2024-Ongoing

  • Spearheaded the creative reinvention of a 2M+ subscriber YouTube series, transforming short instructional

    survival videos into 20+ minute, story-driven documentaries featuring a hosted format, expert interviews,

    cinematic storytelling, and original 3D animation.

  • Lead YouTube content strategy from concept ideation through publication, including audience research,

    creative positioning, script development, retention-focused editing, and title and thumbnail optimization.

  • Develop data-backed title strategies and original thumbnail concepts using Photoshop and generative AI,

    providing hands-on art direction and creative feedback to designers.

  • Analyze video performance, including click-through rates and audience retention, to identify opportunities for

    improved packaging and recommend creative changes to underperforming videos.

  • Oversaw 150 video releases generating 81M+ lifetime views, 6.7M watch hours, 340K attributed subscribers,

    and $311K USD in estimated lifetime revenue.

  • Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary team of eight creative professionals, guiding writers, editors, researchers, hosts, and thumbnail artists throughout the production process.

Showrunner for Your Body On- Underknown (Full-Time) - May 2021-Jan 2024

  • Led creative strategy, editorial development, and production for a multiplatform science and entertainment

    series distributed across Snapchat, Facebook, and YouTube.

  • Helped generate over $1 million in revenue, while scaling the show's audience across multiple social platforms.

  • Grew the Snapchat audience to over 1 million subscribers within one year of taking over as showrunner.

  • Grew the YouTube channel to over 70,000 subscribers and oversaw the production of more than 400 videos,

    averaging approximately 16 releases per month.

  • Managed a multidisciplinary team of writers, editors, researchers, thumbnail designers, and voiceover talent,

    coordinating creative development and production across multiple platforms.

Video Producer & Editor for Underknown (Full-Time) - 2019-2021

  • Distilling research packages into entertaining and concise scripts

  • Gathering stock footage and sourcing video for use in final project

  • Communicating with team members via Slack and managing projects with Trello

  • Meeting tight deadlines and ensuring all deliverables have been uploaded

  • Archiving large projects for other editors

Assistant Editor contract for Saloon Media (affiliate of Blue Ant Media) (Part-Time Contract) - Sept-Oct 2019

  • Responsible for logging footage

  • Editing & transcoding media in Avid Media Composer

  • Managing exports for multiple formats

  • Delivering OMF & Music Cue Sheets

  • Updating bins with VFX & other assets over Tiger server

  • Archiving projects

  • Meeting deadlines and communicating to team members over Slack

Assistant VFX editor for ‘Hazy Little Thing’ directed by Sam Coyle, produced by With Wolves Media (Part-Time Contract) - Aug-Oct 2019

  • Prepping mask layers using Adobe After FX

  • Rotoscoping 4k footage for masking

Video Editor/Co-Director for ‘Lights In The Hallway’ Music Video for Body Butter, produced by With Wolves Media (Part-Time Contract) - July-Aug 2019

  • Assisted with creative direction & storyboarding

  • Scouted locations and helped coordinate times

  • Production Assistant on set during shoot

  • Edited in partnership with Nick Coyle

  • Assisted with colour correction and finalization

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE:

VIDEO EDITOR:

COMPOSER:

DIRECTOR:

  • What If Presents: The Solar System Song (co-directed with Maryna Hordiienko & Taylor Moyle) - 2021

  • Blink – 4th Year final project for Alternative Film program with York University Film Department – 2012

  • Transience –  3rd Year short found footage assignment for Alternative Film program with York University Film Department – 2012

  • I Found It In A Dream –  2nd Year - 10 min Digital Music Video for York University Film Department –  2011

  • The Idea  –  1st Year 16mm 5-min Short Fiction Film produced at York University Film Department - 2010

SOUND DESIGNER/EDITOR:

  • Home Again - Directed by Brenden Meyer - fixed problematic sound recordings - 2020

  • Milk and Honey ­– Directed by Marshall Lau - mixed, edited and designed sound – 2011

  • Walcott – Directed by Diego Garcia - mixed, edited, and designed sound with 3rd year film student Mike Cannon – 2009

  • Nature’s Mistakes – Directed by Franco Nguyen - mixed, edited, and designed sound with 2nd year film student Joey Christopher – 2009

BOOM OPERATOR/SOUND TECHNICIAN:

  • Nature’s Mistakes – Directed by Franco Nguyen – York U Film Department – 2009

  • Walcott – Directed by Diego Garcia – York U Film Department – 2010

PRODUCER & DJ:

 Cydux, Cosmic Resonance Records - http://soundcloud.com/user-952505195

Hemingway, Cosmic Resonance Records, Brilliantine Records  - soundcloud.com/hemingway                 

  • Have produced and released official remixes for a variety of artists, including The Virgins (Atlantic Records), D-Cup (Sweat It Out! Records), Keenhouse (Binary Records), The Sonnets (Despotz Records), Matt Van Schie (Bandroom Records), Housse De Racket (Kitsuné Records) and many more.

  • Played live as a DJ in Toronto at venues such as The Drake Hotel, The Gladstone, Wrongbar, The Supermarket, The Ossington, and Czehoski’s.

  • Have supported acts such as Tornado Wallace, Oliver, RAC, Munk, and Classixx

  • Performed on a two-week tour in Los Angeles in partnership with Binary Records in 2011

Unsui - soundcloud.com/unsui

  • Released my single ‘Anata’ on the renowned House Of Disco label

  • Officially remixed Triberg on Hiperbole Records (a jazz/electronic label based out of Germany)

  • Performed live at the Japanese themed Throne Of J.S. (javascript) developer’s conference hosted by Unspace in 2012

MUSICIAN:

GRAPHIC DESIGNER:

  • Graphic Designer for Cosmic Resonance Records - 2017-Ongoing

  • Client: Love Handle, XL Middleton - Type: Poster/Flyer/Instagram - 2016

  • Client: Alzheimer’s Society Of Waterloo Wellington, Type: Brochure for Purse-suasion Fundraiser Event - 2015

  • Client: Forest Gait Farm, Website Design - 2013

  • Client: DMT Landscaping Services, Type: Logo - 2012

  • Client: Canadian Paso Fino Horse Association, Type: Logo - 2012