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Call/Text me: 512-760-9364

Write me: iambekah0724@gmail.com

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Bio

Rebekah Diaz is a professional dancer turned into an Virtual/Augmented Reality strategist who co-founded Dance-Virtual with Jorge Ortiz, a venture to teach partner dance through VR. She specializes in virtual lesson plans and UX optimization. Rebekah believes that eXtended Realities are the future of education and online communication, so naturally, Dance-Virtual is evolving into other instructional avenues. As a dancer, Rebekah has over ten years experience teaching and performing a wide variety of competitive, showcase, and social style Ballroom and partner dances.

What I do – Idea to Delivery:

Communication:

•Establish and maintain strong relationships with customers, vendors, and strategic partners

•Interviewed potential hires, negotiated salaries, and benefits

•Performed administrative and customer service functions by responding to general employee inquiries, addressing employee relations issues, and scheduling meetings

•Recommended appropriate resolutions to employee relations concerns and handled disciplinary issues and investigations of misconduct

•Coordinated and planned events and activities

•Interacted with customers to build connections and nurture relationships.

•Negotiated price and service with customers and vendors to decrease expenses and increase profit

•Trained new employees on proper protocols and customer service standards.

•Manage social media marketing and public relations

•Cultivated and strengthened lasting relationships using strong issue resolution and dynamic communication skills

Project Management:

•Manage multi-disciplinary team

•Schedule, coordinate, and host XR booths and demos for industry conferences and events

•Assist XR development team with testing and debugging experiences

•Meet ambitious deadlines

•Direct technological improvements, reducing waste and business bottlenecks

•Manag time efficiently to complete all tasks within fast-paced deadlines

•Oversee divisional marketing, advertising, and new product development

•Oversee studio budget, accounting operations, and invoicing

•Manage location logistics and rentals

•Manage teachers’ and studio’s schedules and resources

•Recruit, hired, and trained dance teachers and volunteers

UX Optimization:

•Create interactive 3D environments

•Storyboard digital experiences

•Follow specifications and technical limitations when designing to meet established design and gameplay objectives

•Balance and adjusted gameplay experiences to increase critical success of the products

•Use Unity and Blender to create usable characters, levels, vehicles, layouts, and unique elements

•Establish documents outlining concept, art, deliverable specifications, game flow charts, and overall content

•Build 3D scenery in Unity

•Customize human avatars for VR environment

•Calibrate, process, polish, and set up motion capture environment and data

•Plan, implement, film, and post-process mixed reality and green screen videos

•Devise and choreograph dance for self and others

•Monitor the field of dance to remain aware of current trends and innovations

Public Facing: