Filmmaker-Engineer · Award-winning editor & cinematographer

I build the tools
I create on.

Award-winning cinematographer and editor — and the solo architect of PRISM, a production-grade AI platform for filmmakers. I hit a gap by hand on a real cut, then ship the fix as software.

Open to forward-deployed & applied-AI engineering — where craft and code are the same job.

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Telly Gold ×2 W3 Gold Telly Silver ×2 Telly Bronze

Six international awards · three spots · credited on every one.

Award-winning work

The Awkward Proposal

A double-winner: W3 Gold for Visual Effects and Telly Silver in 2024. Shot as Director of Photography.

The Awkward Proposal — Tatt2Away / InkOut
W3 Gold ’24 · VFX Telly Silver ’24
Director of Photography
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More award-winning work

2025 — four more Telly wins

Credited on both spots below — verifiable in the official Telly Awards winners database.

Let Them Eat Cake
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Telly Gold Telly Gold
DP · color · sound · VFX — two Gold Tellys
Pet Etiquette Training
Website Talking Heads · 2025
Telly Silver Telly Bronze
Editor — Silver & Bronze Telly

Full spots available on request.

The tool I built

PRISM

An AI creation & publication platform for filmmakers — screenplay-first, metadata at the core, the human always in the driver's seat. Built solo, part-time. It's live; go press the buttons.

  • Frame-accurate NLE interchange — hand-written OTIO → AAF / FCPXML / EDL serializers; frame-accurate round-trip into Resolve, Premiere, and Avid.
  • Cost-controlled multi-provider AI — the right model per task, with per-task cost estimation and credit metering before spend.
  • Generative-video pipeline — Kling · Runway · Seedance · LTX (via fal) → timeline → render to MP4.
  • Empty workspace → three finished, multi-format masters in ~24 hours — while merging two engine PRs the edit surfaced.
  • The surface of a funded team, held by one person — Flask / PostgreSQL backend with a permission-cascade engine and CI-gated tests, a real-time collaborative editor (CodeMirror 6 · Yjs CRDT), and a 9-service production stack with tested disaster recovery.
  • A governed multi-agent operations suite — OS-isolated offices, scoped delegation, MCP / OpenAPI surfaces; designed and operated, engine-agnostic.
One person.
Architect, engineer, and first user — the loop that makes the AI land inside real professional workflows.
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What I do

Craft & code, in one head

Craft

Editing (Premiere · DaVinci Resolve · Final Cut) · color grading · motion graphics & compositing (After Effects) · VFX · cinematography, lighting & grip · sound mixing & loudness mastering · NLE interchange (EDL / FCPXML / OTIO / AAF). Former college post-production instructor.

Engineering

Python · Flask · PostgreSQL · JavaScript / Svelte · real-time CRDT collaboration · multi-provider LLM integration & cost-routing · generative-video pipelines · MCP / OpenAPI · agent orchestration · Docker · CI/CD · Linode / Terraform · auth & security.

Contact

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Forward-deployed / applied-AI engineering at an AI or media-tech team — where craft and code are the same job.

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