Lindsay Guinan
Summary
- Carmen M. Christensen Endowed Scholarship recipient 2019-2021
- California College of the Arts recipient of the Diversity Scholarship 2019-2021
- CCA@CCA grant for WCBIPOC campaign initiative 2020
- Prism Foundation Scholarship recipient 2020
- Jerrold B. Whitney Memorial Scholarship recipient 2021
- Lorna Meyer Calas Scholarship recipient 2021
- Edna Reichmuth Scholarship recipient 2021
- Kimberly and Simon Blattner Scholarship recipient 2021
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Management
East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation
Oakland, CA
06.2024 - Current
- Community Engagement and Outreach: Engage residents and local groups to participate in collaborative and programmatic activities, using a broad range of resident engagement strategies, including arts, culture, and creativity.
- Community Partnerships: Identify opportunities to cultivate, support, and strengthen relationships with local artists, organizations aligned with the scope of work, and the City of Oakland.
- Project and Program Management: Creative project design, idea visualization, budgeting, research, outreach, coaching residents on project management, and managing consultants and teams.
- Data & Evaluation: Support resident and partner project leaders in evaluating their creative projects, grant reporting, and submitting internal reports on creative projects, utilizing an approved evaluation framework. Contribute to the development of new evaluation tools, frameworks, and practices.
- Visibility and Communication
Project Coordinator
Queerchata
San Francisco, CA
03.2024 - Current
- Managed communication channels between various teams involved in the execution of complex projects.
- Maintained a detailed database of project information including budgeting, resources and deliverables.
- Coordinated with internal departments as well as external vendors to ensure successful completion of tasks.
- Developed and implemented project plans, established timelines, tracked progress and ensured deadlines were met.
- Prioritized needs and delegated assignments to simultaneously handle multiple projects.
Founder and Project Manager
WCBIPOC Fundraising Campaign
Oakland, CA
06.2020 - Current
- Coordinated complex contract administration, including defining project milestones and developing budget.
- Created project plans with established timelines for integral phases, assigned to appropriate teams, managed workflow and completion deadlines on or before schedule.
- Led meetings to convey project requirements, scope, milestones and regulatory compliance.
- Incepted, organized and led a $35,000 fundraising campaign for working class Black Indigenous students with Black Brilliance, Students of Color Coalition, CCA Student Union, Student council and Faculty at CCA 2020 with a fiscal sponsor, SOMArts.
Production Assistant
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Burbank, CA
01.2022 - 09.2023
- Departments: Story, Visual Development, Edit, Animation, Effects, Lighting
- Scheduled, tracked, and managed assigned work within Shotgun and ensured that information is kept up to date, clean, and notes are turned around accordingly.
- Proactively anticipated needs of the artists by managing interdepartmental dependencies of any changes that may have impacted upstream or downstream departments. Communicated any hurdles with leadership to provide solutions in a timely manner.
- Assisted artists with escalating technical help tickets and prioritizing shots based on deadlines for the render farm using Coda and Shotgun.
- Paired technical and soft skills to drive reviews, dailies, and rounds; made sure the playlists were correct and in order, maintained a positive review, set up and operated internal hardware and software.
- Empowered artists and advocated for them to reach out, encouraged teamwork and transparency between production, departments, artists, artistic leadership, developed relationships with each artist to understand their personalities and needs.
Production Management Internship
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Remote, CA
05.2021 - 08.2021
- Worked closely with a team of 10 artists by overseeing CG intern short from front end departments to back end departments.
- Managed department schedules and weekly asset updates through Disney's proprietary art software, Shotgun and Google Sheets.
- Maintained notes and clear communication between departments and led meetings.
- Collaborated with mentors to accomplish department goals as well as bid and cast assignments to strategize artist capacity and timely deliveries.
- Fostered a collaborative and encouraging work environment to motivate artists.
Art Teacher, K-5
Berkeley Unified School District
Berkeley, CA
01.2012 - 05.2019
- Taught and created curriculum age appropriate art and animation classes for children ranging in age from 5 years old to 12 years old.
- Assisted students in reaching the standards of the California State Board of Education for English-Language Arts, Mathematics, History-Social Science, Science, and Visual and Performing Arts.
- Worked closely as a team with staff, parents, principal and teachers for each childs’ specific needs.
- Created a safe space and relationship with every child to understand specific needs.
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Animation -
California College Of The Arts
San Francisco, CA12.2021
Character Design
Animation Collaborative
Emeryville, CA2018
Skills
- Google Suite (Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Calendar, Google Forms, Google Meet)
- Microsoft 360
- Quickbooks
- Zoom
- Jira
- Word
- Excel
- Shotgun
- RV
- DPix, On Deck
- Racounteur
- Lumberjack
- ThinLinc, HP RGS Receiver
- SyncSketch
- Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Premier, Audition, Illustrator, Acrobat)
- TV Paint
- Maya
Volunteer Work and Trainings
- Rise Up Animation: Mentee 2021
- Women in Animation: Member
- Lesbians Who Tech: Member
- CTN Expo 2019: Attendee
- 24 Frames Animation Club at CCA: Treasurer
- Students of Color Coalition at CCA: Member
- Art and Activism Honors Program at CCA SF LGBTQ Youth Summit: Volunteer
- Majority Leaders with Supermajority Education Fund: Inaugural Cohort
Timeline
Project Management
East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation
06.2024 - Current
Project Coordinator
Queerchata
03.2024 - Current
Production Assistant
Walt Disney Animation Studios
01.2022 - 09.2023
Production Management Internship
Walt Disney Animation Studios
05.2021 - 08.2021
Founder and Project Manager
WCBIPOC Fundraising Campaign
06.2020 - Current
Art Teacher, K-5
Berkeley Unified School District
01.2012 - 05.2019
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Animation -
California College Of The Arts
Character Design
Animation Collaborative
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