Experience and Education
Freelance Production Manager, 2nd AD & Performance Capture Coordinator
March 2021 – Present
PCAP/MoCap Production Manager and Coordinator for AAA games companies, specializing in cinematics and stunts.
Projects:
Jedi: Survivor, EA Respawn
Forspoken (DLC), Luminous Productions/Square Enix
Other projects are unannounced.
Digital Domain
May 2019 – June 2020
As production coordinator for the New Media & Experiential team, Kelsey coordinated visual effects tasks for production, keeping artists on schedule and overseeing tasks as a show and department coordinator. She coordinated motion capture shoots of game engine productions (AAA), coordinated FACs captures and photogrammetry scans. She coordinated engineers, oversaw the success of client and vendor data transfers and supported the Integration & Tracking (Integ) team of five as WFH orders took effect in Los Angeles, coordinating hardware distribution on a graveyard shift while facilitating collaboration between R&D and Integ artists on best practices for crafting emotive performances out of geometric data points.
In 2019, the New Media & Experiential team premiered TIME Magazine’s “The March”, which consisted of creating photo-real Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Kelsey was the show coordinator for the pre-production of this project and facilitated the TIME Magazine four day writer’s room at the Digital Domain studio.
Technicolor Experience Center
January 2018 – January 2019
While Production Coordinator, she oversaw the showroom of VR stations (9+ types of hardware, including two Positron chairs). Kelsey was docent and curator of content viewings in the showroom, introducing VR to hundreds of first-time headset users.
She coordinated shoots for The Mill, MPC Film and Technicolor Artists-in-Residence. She script supervised a Protagon Pix full-color photogrammetry shoot, organized VR docents for the Los Angeles Fashion Film Festival and produced Awavena’s room-scale VR installation at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2018. Kelsey coordinated client demos of MPC virtual production previsualization workflow Genesis, as well as events for NVIDIA, SIGGRAPH, Greenlight Insights, among others.
Zócalo Public Square
Jan 2019 – May 2019
After an editorial internship in 2013 and a sustainability fellowship in 2016, Kelsey joined the Zócalo team as a live events coordinator in 2019.
She produced 10 panel discussions in Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Honolulu and Taos, which required developing outreach strategies to fill venues past capacity for free, live journalism. Partnerships included KCRW, J. Paul Getty Trust, National History Museum, The Smithsonian Museum and MOCA, among others.
B.A. in Digital Journalism, May 2017
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Arizona State University
Highlights included:
Advanced Investigative Reporting Seminar, The Cronkite School
Under the guidance of Walter V. Robinson, Spotlight Editor and Executive Editor of The Boston Globe, Kelsey and two other reporters published this four-month investigation:
“As Allegations Increase Against Backpage, Founders Have Become Big Political Donors In Arizona,” Arizona Republic; 04/14/17
The New Media Innovation & Entrepreneurship Lab, The Cronkite School
Kelsey pitched and led a team of four students in creating a 360° documentary, Under the Stars, about Flagstaff, Arizona — the first city worldwide to pass outdoor lighting regulations in the 1960’s. This project incorporated ambisonic directional audio and astrophotography, and became the first cut of Light Trash.
Deconstructed: A Downtown Phoenix Podcast by Downtown Devil
Kelsey was community editor, education editor, copy editor and news reporter for Downtown Devil, ultimately joining the managing board and launching the website’s first podcast as co-producer and host. She followed up with staff reporters whose stories continued developing past publication, often in situations where publication of the story resulted in direct community impact. These reporters were interviewed on Deconstructed about their experience covering the story and gave insight into the hyperlocal journalism process. Podcast episodes premiered on ASU’s college radio station The Blaze 1330 AM.
Downtown Devil is a 12-year-running independent student-run daily news publication, publishing hyperlocal news for the downtown Phoenix community.
Arizona State University’s College Radio, The Blaze 1330 AM
Assistant News Director
Specialty Show Host of a weekly jazz show (2015-2017), All That Jazz
2x a week co-host on a drive-time talk radio show (2014), Traffic Jam
News Anchor, breaking news (2013-2017), Press Pass
COLLEGIATE EXPERIENCE
IBM - Research Division
May 2016 – August 2016
While based out of Yorktown Heights, New York, Kelsey spent a summer working on the Thomas J. Watson Research Headquarters of IBM learning about emerging technology (quantum computing and data governance, drones for agriculture, VR for education).
As the communications and marketing intern responsible for the Research division, her responsibilities included turning IBM Research news into pitches for New York Times reporter Steve Lohr. Her team attended the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference in New York City and hosted a panel discussing the relationship between AI and journalism.
Her reporting for the IBM Think Blog is available for reading here.
The Arizona Republic
August 2015 – May 2017
While working towards her B.A. at The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, she reported breaking and investigative news for The Arizona Republic.
Her reporting for The Arizona Republic and other outlets is available for reading here.
The New York Times
May 2015 – May 2017
As the New York Times student marketer at Arizona State University, Kelsey was the liaison between ASU and NYT. In this capacity, she designed outreach strategies to reach ASU’s 71,946 students and turn them into NYT.com digital subscribers. Kelsey scheduled the speaking engagements of reporters and editors across the campuses and leveraged digital advertising and marketing to attract participants to live events, such as NYT TimesTalks.