NNSA Supercomputing (feat. world's fastest system: El Capitan!)

Objective: Explain exascale supercomputing in the context of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) mission to NNSA’s social media followers and website visitors.

Medium: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects

Understanding the Nanoscale

Objective: Help the visitors of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration website better understand the kind of work the labs do by providing context for just how small 'nano' is.

Medium: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Blender

Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) 50th Anniversary

Objective: Promote the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)’s Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) at a special in-person event celebrating a half-century of flexible, scalable, and tailored capability to keep America safe from radiological threats. Also used on social media.

Medium: Adobe Illustrator and After Effects

Join the Nuclear Security Enterprise!

Objective: Boost recruitment by highlighting the exciting career opportunities at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to social media followers and website visitors.

Medium: Adobe Illustrator and After Effects

NNSA's CD Process

Objective: Describe how NNSA’s Office of Infrastructure maintains, operates, and modernizes facilities across the Nuclear Security Enterprise in a safe, secure, and cost-effective manner to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) social media followers and website visitors.

Medium: Adobe Illustrator and After Effects

USMI demo reel

Objective: Provide a sample of animations created 2014-2015.

Medium: Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator

Planetary Defense: Characterization

Objective: Explain that the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration is one of the Federal agencies with responsibilities for “planetary defense” or detecting and mitigating impact threats from potentially hazardous near-Earth objects, such as asteroids and comets. Help the audience understand that these efforts are part of an official national security focus for the United States.

Medium: Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Blender

Planetary Defense: Simulation

Objective: Explain that the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration is one of the Federal agencies with responsibilities for “planetary defense” or detecting and mitigating impact threats from potentially hazardous near-Earth objects, such as asteroids and comets. Help the audience understand that these efforts are part of an official national security focus for the United States.

Medium: Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Blender

Antibiotic Resistance and You

Objective: Created for the general patient population at the Georgia Regents University Department of Family Medicine, this animation is designed to prevent confusion, disappointment or hostility when a patient demands a prescription and the doctor refuses. It explains the difference between bacteria and viruses and thus the reason why antibiotics are not always the answer. The intent is to give a broader understanding of what antibiotic resistance is and why it is such a serious issue--from the global scale right down to your very own digestive tract.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop, After Effects and Maxon Cinema 4D

USMI by the numbers

Objective: Create a promotional video showcasing the varies benefits of using the Canady Hybrid Plasma™ Scalpel.

Medium: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

Photography Do's & Don'ts

Objective: Explain common pitfalls of amateur photographers and how to avoid them. This was used for distribution to U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration field offices to ensure client received quality content for use on the website.

Medium: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Diapedesis

Objective: Demonstrate to students of biology what happens inside your post-capillary venules when there is an injury and white blood cells must be recruited and released at the sight of damage. Specifically, I showed the steps and adhesion molecules involved in the extravasation of neutrophils.

Medium: Maxon Cinema4D

Surgical Excision of a Tongue Lesion

Objective: To show the steps of removing and suturing a potentially malignant tongue lesion such as leukoplakia.

Medium: Adobe Flash

First Metatarsophalangeal Joint Injection

Objective: Explain proper protocol for a steroid injection into the joint capsule to alleviate pain frequently associated with conditions such as gout or "turf toe".

Medium: Adobe Photoshop and After Effects