Zoe Espinosa

Designed, built and operated the real-time tracking platform behind the production. Ingested satellite GPS from Garmin inReach devices over the Iridium network — webhook pipeline, ~25-second end-to-end latency — into a Next.js/Redis app on Vercel, powering a live leaderboard that scored each team's progress along its own scouted route, with snap-to-route positioning, off-course detection and producer-controlled scoring.

Created the live tracking system behind a large-scale pursuit production: 115+ GPS units across contestants, pursuit teams and camera operators, all feeding a single real-time map. A mixed hardware fleet — 4G cellular trackers plus GPS ankle monitors — reported through a telematics pipeline into a Next.js/TypeScript app on Vercel, layered with geofence zones, stillness detection, and a one-second alarm path that turns each contestant's own phone into their siren.

California-licensed painting corporation (CSLB #1126241) serving residential and commercial clients across 21 cities. I run the company and built its site — six pages, two regional SEO landing pages, a five-step process walkthrough, and license verification surfaced on every page.

Bootstrapped plush toys and collectibles brand, no outside funding, run solo — product concept and design, manufacturer sourcing, inventory forecasting, fulfillment, pricing, marketing across Instagram, TikTok, email and paid social, and post-purchase support. The same systems thinking and automation as the day job, pointed at a supply chain.

• White-glove IT for the CEO, Founder and full C-suite — devices, accounts and access end to end, confidential requests handled with discretion.
• Own executive A/V and livestreaming, from single-camera private C-suite meetings up to full company-wide streams.
• Support 1,000+ users across 6 business units on macOS and Windows, from walk-ups to escalations during live shoots.
• Administer identity, SSO and endpoint security end to end — Okta, Azure AD, Fleet, Jamf, Intune, Munki, plus 40+ SaaS platforms.
• Helped build the agentic AI ticketing system's post-production side (intake, routing, triage into Slack) — ~40% cut in average resolution time.
• Saved $120K in contract labor by bringing app development and A/V production in-house.

• Bootstrapped consumer products brand run solo — sourcing, ops, fulfillment, marketing, support.

• Primary Tier 2/3 resource for Apple's Motion Design studio (100+ designers) for 6 years, owning the hardest escalations: render pipeline failures, GPU/VRAM, fibre channel throughput, SAN mount failures.
• Built the studio's onboarding, licensing and escalation workflows — 30% reduction in inbound support volume.
• Ran IT operations for Apple Newsroom at WWDC, where failure was highly visible.

• Led IT for multiple Apple Events a year: primary and failover production networks built from scratch, 50+ edit workstations staged per event, real-time 4K editing with zero tolerance for downtime.
• Cut render delays 25% across Compression, VFX and Color Grading; built a macOS onboarding pipeline that had 40+ hires set up on Day 1.

• Lead A/V tech on 100+ live productions — camera control, live audio mixing, switching and signal routing at broadcast quality.
• Ran weekly certification for 200 conference rooms; co-wrote maintenance SOPs adopted across Facebook's facilities worldwide.

• Four high-traffic venues solo — daily A/V checks, walkthroughs, unsupervised live troubleshooting.