Professional on Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria

Sunset Parking

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0600

Product and web consulting for a small business, from requirements discovery through release.

Key responsibilities:

Manage product backlogs for client web projects, translating business requirements into prioritized user stories.
Migrate full-stack shared hosting to CI/CD-driven, open-source static site alternatives, cutting software licensing costs by 90%.
Deliver 10+ releases over six months through Agile sprint planning and execution.
Facilitate stakeholder discovery sessions to identify and sequence enhancement opportunities.

tllester.info

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0600

Todd Lanier Lester is an artist who over two decades has launched a series of three rights-focused, participatory works situated between visual media and performance methodology.

This project consists of migrating a dozen WordPress websites into a modern consolidated digital space using Hugo as a static site generator and Tina CMS for content management, while deploying builds to Cloudflare Workers through a Github CI/CD pipeline.

Key Responsibilities:

Customized Hugo theme design using Go, HTML, CSS, and a smidge of classic Javascript.
Migration of WordPress Websites: Develop tools and scripts to automate the migration process from WordPress to Hugo. This includes importing post, page, category, tag, custom fields, media files, and other relevant data.
Content Management with Tina CMS: Integrate Tina CMS into the website, allowing users to manage content through a user-friendly interface. Ensure proper integration of Tina CMS with the existing site structure.
Static Site Generation: Use Hugo to generate static HTML from the migrated content, ensuring that the website is optimized for performance and SEO.
Deployment to Cloudflare Workers: Set up a CI/CD pipeline to automate the deployment process. This involves building the static site using Hugo and deploying it to Cloudflare Workers, ensuring that the site is accessible through https://tllester.info.

Art & Writing Awards

Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0600

Technical manager for all digital products of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, a national award for teens, with 25 categories in visual arts and literature.
Product Owner of the Awards Portal which receives 300,000 applications; delivers 80,000 regional awards; and 3,000 national awards every year.
Led the modernization of the Awards Management System within a team of design and engineering vendors.
Maintained codebases and running services for the organization’s digital products.
Provided on-demand data-analytics throughout the Scholastic Awards yearly seasons.

W.A.G.E.

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600

Maintained an app tracking institutional data in a React, Node.js, NoSQL full stack web application with KeystoneJS.
Managed system services for Linux-based production servers.
Provided solutions for the migration of financial data into a non-relational database.

Teleprompter Operator

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500

On-site teleprompter operator for live broadcasts, corporate presentations, speeches, award ceremonies, and film production.

Worked with teleprompting providers including Wiley Teleprompting, Ansonia Prompting, Vice TV, and Google TV.
Served corporate events for Google Cloud, YouTube, and Lincoln Motors.
Produced events nationwide across California, Florida, Nevada, New York, and Texas.

Synth Sessions

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0700

Multi-synthesizer jamming sessions app

A web app designed for multi-synthesizer jamming. Users can create a session and choose to add one or more synthesizer modules (current choices, a Mono Synth, Duo Synth, and FM synth) to their sessions. They can play each synth with the on-screen keys or with a computer keyboard.

Key Technologies, Packages, and Gems:

Frontend:

React
Tone.js
nexusUI
react-select

Backend:

Rails 5 API
JWT token authentication
BCrypt
Postgres database
fast_jsonapi serializer

Core Features:

Open Call

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0700

A marketplace web app allowing artists to submit works for review and selection by institutions. There are two types of users, artists and organizations. Artists can signup and upload their artworks into portfolios. Organizations can signup and post open calls for artwork submissions. Artists can submit selected portfolio images to an open call for review by the organization. An organization can select a finalist artist for each of their respective open calls.

Teleprompter App

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0700

A web based teleprompter interface allowing a speaker to read scripts on camera or to a live audience.

Using Vanilla Javascript to create an interactive single page application through DOM manipulation, incorporating QuillJS library to invoke a WYSIWYG word processing editor with full CRUD capability. Ruby on Rails API backend used for document saving.

Built at @flatiron-school with @mmcgovern0 and @jmhill91.

Key Technologies, Packages, and Gems

Front End
- Javascript
- QuillJS
- HTML, CSS
Back End

Residency Unlimited

Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600

Residency Unlimited (RU) is a non-profit arts organization that supports the creative process of US based and international artists and curators at all stages of their career through its unique, customized residencies and year-round public programs.

Supported 450+ individual artists and produced 250+ public programs.
Maintained bookkeeping, payroll, vendors, auditing procedures, grant writing, and reporting for a non-profit visual artist residency program based in Brooklyn.
Produced yearly programming in all NYC boroughs, managing 500k in annual revenue.

Location One

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Location One was a non-profit arts space in SoHo, New York, running an international visiting artist studio program alongside exhibitions and public programming.

Residents were nominated by partner foundations and arts organizations sponsoring artists from their home countries, for residencies of five or ten months.

Joined as program assistant, installing exhibitions and managing art talks and musical performances, then promoted to Technical/Creative Coordinator (2004–2006), coordinating the 10-studio international residency and giving technical and software support to resident artists.
Maintained an international visiting artist studio program supporting 50+ individual artists from more than 15 countries.
Produced public programming and events, and installed exhibitions.
Transitioned the organization’s primary website into a WordPress content management system.

QTV Autocue

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0500

QTV was one of the first teleprompting companies in the United States, licensing a paper-roll prompting patent in 1955; it now operates as Autocue/QTV.

On-site teleprompter operator for live broadcasts, corporate presentations, political speeches, award ceremonies, and film production.

Productions with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Liza Minnelli, NY1, Fashion Week, The Inner Circle, Univision, and Lincoln Center.

Flux Factory

Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0500

Flux Factory is a New York arts collective and non-profit organization supporting emerging artists through residencies, exhibitions, and collaborative projects.

Key stakeholder during a pivotal period in the collective’s growth.
Produced public program graphics and design for digital and print, and documented events and exhibitions.
Handled sound engineering, audio/visual editing, and technical management for events and exhibitions.
Produced cultural events and public programming both in-house and throughout the NYC metropolitan area.
Built and launched the organization’s website using WordPress as a CMS.
Designed the organization’s logo, still in use today.

AUM Associates

Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0500

Graphic design for marketing, and sound production for promotional videos, for AUM Associates, an architecture and building contracting firm.

Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs

Sat, 28 Jul 2001 00:00:00 +0100

Ran a web design workshop during the Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs in Sarajevo, a biennial contemporary art exhibition joining major cities around the Mediterranean, and represented the cultural website Panoplie there.

The tenth edition, held in Sarajevo in the summer of 2001 under the title Chaos and Communication, brought together more than 700 artists from 28 countries across design, music, film, literature, visual art, gastronomy, and performing arts. The international BJCEM association was founded during it.

Artes de México

Tue, 01 May 2001 00:00:00 -0600

Artes de México is a Mexico City publishing house. Its magazine, relaunched in 1988 by Alberto Ruy Sánchez, publishes bilingual Spanish–English issues, each devoted to a single theme from Mexico’s art, craft, and cultural heritage.

Production, research, and design assistant for a bimonthly cultural magazine publication.
Supported documentation and field research photography.
Published advertisements and promotional material; handled film and print scanning and proofreading in Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXPress.