About

Agile Lens

XR Consultant / Motion Capture QA Specialist / UX QA Lead

Led QA for motion and facial capture for expressive realism using Rokoko, xsenz, Unreal Engine Live Link Face, and Quest Pro with Metahuman avatars. Provided real-time acting, UI/UX consulting, and structured quality review for XR productions.

Raptor XR Studio

Founder & Creative Director / Interactive Narrative Designer

Created award-winning interactive XR experiences testing AI NPCs with live actors; wrote and directed productions presented at international film festivals. Fine-tuned LLaMA 2 with QLoRA using PEFT via Axolotl, incorporating player and NPC performance feedback.

Flipside XR

Community Manager / Avatar Rigging QA / Gameplay UX QA Analyst

Oversaw community engagement and performance-based QA for XR content creation platform. Ran QA analysis and created tutorials for translating emotions into inverse-kinematics and viseme blendshapes.

Active Replica

Immersive Designer / Interactive Narrative Specialist / Artist in Residence

Designed and led live VR events specializing in engagement, world design, and UX. Delivered structured interaction flow feedback to improve participant experience and platform quality.

Adventure Lab

Gameplay QA / UX QA Analyst / Script Consultant / Live Ops Tester

Built UI and authored interactive scripting for a VR/Film/Theater/Gaming hybrid platform. Trained immersive actors and designed live player/NPC encounters; conducted structured gameplay and UX QA.

Thera VR

Game Environment Designer / Technical Lead / Interactive UX Design

Built clinician-guided VR software for therapeutic sessions; translated behavioral goals into structured interaction cues and environment logic. Created spatial storytelling environments with empathic design for sessions with live therapists and patients.

River Studios

Creative Producer / Immersive Designer / Interactive Narrative Design

Coordinated schedules, deliverables, and post workflows for 360 video and spatial media productions. Managed MR/VR/AR content production, live performance integration, and immersive installations.

High Fidelity

Immersive System Designer / QA Tester / Interactive Narrative Design

Built creator tools and immersive narrative systems; designed worlds as server-scale load QA tests for performance validation.

Raktor

CEO & Co-Founder / Product Lead / Design Lead

Co-founded and led development of mixed reality software for livestream and interactive XR/MR content. Directed engineering, design, and QA roadmaps; set production milestones across iterative releases.

Vau de Vire Society

Lead Performer / Writer / Immersive Interactive Narrative Designer

Created character-driven audience beats and coordinated mixed-media cues for large-scale immersive theater productions.

Fou Fou Ha

Lead Performer / Co-Director / Projection & Interactive Media Designer

Co-directed internationally touring queer theater and festival-scale installations integrating interactive projected environments and audience interaction systems.

New Eccentrics

Designer / Director / Producer

Directed and designed touring theatre and immersive events integrating analog and digital techniques.

Flying Karamazov Brothers

Actor

Performer for regional, touring, and off-Broadway productions.

University of Montana

Adjunct Instructor, Media Arts / Acting

Taught acting and voice with emphasis on emotional nuance and expressive clarity for screen and immersive media.

York University

Adjunct Lecturer, Immersive Theater for Spatial Technology

Taught spatial storytelling and interactive narrative design for audience interaction and real-time iteration from user feedback.

Performance + XR IBPOC Fellowship

Immersive Storytelling Lead Mentor

West Kowloon Cultural District Authority / University of Leeds

VR Lead Instructor

NYU Tisch

Guest Instructor, Immersive & Interactive VR Performance & Design

Chapman University

Guest Lecturer, Immersive VR Storytelling

Brooklyn College

Guest Lecturer, Directing for Virtual Reality

MFA, Media Arts

University of Montana

Thesis: "AI Pipelines for Immersive Design." Fine-tuned an SDXL checkpoint with kohya_ss using custom tokens and a SDXL-Turbo LoRA for a real-time TouchDesigner interactive installation; converted images into 3D assets for immersive world design; trained a WAN 2.1 character LoRA for video instruction delivery in a live installation.

BA, Theatre and Performance, Multimedia

Bard College

Seeing Yourself on Stage: Multi-Avatar Performance

A Tale of Two Productions: A Christmas Carol Onstage and in VR

Best Immersive Theatre — Nominee

Raindance Film Festival

Best Performance — Winner

FIVARS International Film Festival

Discovery Award: Best Debut — Honorable Mention

Raindance Film Festival

Best Immersive Performance — Nominee

Raindance Film Festival

Event of the Year — Nominee

Polys WebXR Awards

Best VR/App/Video Game — Winner

Bullseye Awards

Interaction Award — Winner

Aurea Awards

Best Multiplayer Experience — Winner

Raindance Film Festival

Outstanding Achievement in Design — Winner

Raindance Film Festival

Innovation Award — Nominee

Producers Guild of America

Outstanding Achievement in Escape Gaming — Winner

No Proscenium

Best Multiplatform XR Game — Winner

Microsoft WebXR Hackathon

Multi-Avatar Performance and Self-Monitoring in VR

SIGGRAPH

Building and Breaking XR Performances

Worlds in Play

WebXR for Higher Education, Residencies, Workshops and Theater

iLRN

XR Acting Techniques for Live Facial and Motion Capture

PSI Conference

Immersive Interactive Narrative Techniques in XR

IMX Conference

Embodied Empathy in WebXR

Performance and XR Conference

Creating XR Performances in the Metaverse (presentation and workshop)

VRTO

Digital Tools for Remote Performance

Theater Communications Group

Making a Virtual Adventure: A VR Master Class

Raindance Film Festival

History of Immersive Technology

Centre for Immersive Technology, Leeds University

Breaking the 5th Wall — Keynote

Visual Media Conference

New Old Time Chautauqua

Clowns Without Borders

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