Julian Mackler

Creative Director & AI/Data Science Strategist
New York, US.

About

Highly innovative Creative Director and AI/Data Science Strategist with 15+ years of experience leading multidisciplinary creative projects and optimizing digital asset workflows. Expert in leveraging generative AI, machine learning, and data analytics to drive groundbreaking visual content, enhance digital experiences, and streamline operational efficiencies. Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into tangible creative solutions, fostering innovation and delivering measurable impact across diverse industries.

Skills

Generative AI

Midjourney, DALL-E, Adobe Firefly, Stable Diffusion, RunwayML, Eleven Labs, Pika Labs, Suno AI, DreamStudio, Descript, HeyGen, GANs, VAEs, Diffusion Models, Transformers.

LLMs & Text Models

GPT-4, Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, Claude Haiku, Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, Gemini Nano, PaLM, Cohere Command, Cohere Coral, LLaMA, Llama 2, Llama 3, Mistral Large, Mixtral 8x7B, Mistral 7B, Falcon, Gemma, Ollama, BERT, RoBERTa, T5, Transformer architecture, Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText.

ML Frameworks & Libraries

TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, JAX, MXNet, scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, Statsmodels, NLTK, SpaCy.

Hugging Face Transformers

Gensim, Optuna, MLflow, Streamlit, Gradio.

Computer Vision

OpenCV, PIL/Pillow, scikit-image, ImageAI, Albumentations, YOLO, Faster R-CNN, SSD, U-Net, Mask R-CNN, Tesseract.

Data Science & Analysis Languages & Tools

Python, NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, R, tidyverse, dplyr, ggplot2, tidyr, data.table, Julia, SQL, PostgreSQL, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab, JupyterHub, VS Code, Google Colab, Deepnote, dbt, Apache Airflow, Prefect.

Visualization

Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Altair, Bokeh, D3.js, Plotly.js, Chart.js, Tableau, Power BI.

Big Data

Apache Spark, Spark SQL, MLlib, GraphX, Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Apache Hive, Delta Lake.

Cloud Computing

AWS, S3, EC2, Lambda, SageMaker, Rekognition, Polly, Comprehend, RDS, Redshift, Glue, Step Functions, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, Vertex AI, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Microsoft Azure, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Functions, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL Database.

Database Systems

PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle Database, SQLite, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Neo4j, DynamoDB, Firestore, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus.

Web Technologies

React, Next.js, Angular, Vue.js, Svelte, Node.js, Express.js, Django, Flask, Ruby on Rails, Spring Boot, Go, Gin, Echo, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, Material UI, Chakra UI, Framer Motion, GSAP, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3.

Version Control

Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket.

Containerization/Orchestration

Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Helm.

Design Tools

Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, GIMP, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher.

3D/Rendering Software

Blender, Cinema 4D, ZBrush, Maya, Houdini, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Cycles, Eevee, Mantra, Karma, Nuke, Unreal Engine, Unity, V-Ray, Octane Render.

Photography & Video

Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Capture One Pro, Darktable, RawTherapee, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Kdenlive, Shotcut, Adobe After Effects, Fusion.

Scripting

Zsh, Bash, Shell Scripting.

Work

Long & Foster
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Real Estate Salesperson

Summary

Managed client relationships and sales processes for residential and commercial properties, leveraging market insights to facilitate successful transactions.

Highlights

Cultivated and maintained a robust client pipeline, consistently exceeding sales targets by an average of 15% through strategic prospecting and relationship management.

Conducted comprehensive market analyses to advise clients on optimal pricing strategies and investment opportunities, resulting in efficient property sales and client satisfaction.

Negotiated complex contracts and facilitated seamless closing processes for numerous real estate transactions, ensuring compliance with legal and industry regulations.

Developed and implemented targeted marketing campaigns for diverse property listings, leveraging digital platforms and traditional channels to maximize exposure and attract qualified buyers.

Mackler Studios
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Creative Director

Summary

Led creative direction and strategic innovation for a multidisciplinary studio, integrating advanced AI and data science methodologies to drive groundbreaking visual content and digital experiences.

Highlights

Engineered systematic frameworks for deterministic creative outputs across multiple domains, leveraging advanced parameter optimization for generative models like Midjourney, DALL-E, and Adobe Firefly, resulting in highly innovative visual assets.

Developed interactive AI-powered web applications with Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS, featuring style pairing engines and semantic clashing logic, deployed via Vercel with CI/CD, enhancing user engagement and creative workflows.

Designed and implemented intelligent algorithms for massive variation generation through precise mixing of aesthetic elements, utilizing Python (NumPy, SciPy) for complex calculations, significantly expanding creative output.

Built an original aesthetic taxonomy of 1,200+ tagged styles, evolving into 2,000+ distinct aesthetic variations (Pastyche Schema v5.1) with UUID-based hierarchical clustering for generative outputs, enhancing content organization and retrieval.

Applied advanced techniques including neural style transfer, content recomposition, and procedural generation, integrating with Blender, Cinema 4D, and Nuke for nuanced visual hybridization and advanced digital artistry.

BFA
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Photographer and Workflow Strategist

Summary

Provided comprehensive photographic services and optimized digital workflows for diverse clients, enhancing efficiency and quality in visual content production.

Highlights

Designed Adobe Lightroom workflow architecture for a 30-person news team, implementing real-time capture and editing systems that significantly streamlined photo processing and delivery.

Created ML-powered tools for identifying patterns across 50,000+ images and over 300 global documentary photography portfolios, utilizing TensorFlow and PyTorch with OpenCV, enhancing visual content analysis.

Developed custom scripts for video frame extraction using Python and macOS Automator, significantly improving post-production efficiency for video content.

Implemented custom image classification, style transfer, and anomaly detection systems using OpenCV and PIL/Pillow for enhanced visual content categorization and quality control.

The Frick Collection
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Digital Asset Manager

Summary

Managed and optimized digital asset systems for a prestigious art collection, ensuring efficient organization, preservation, and accessibility of visual archives.

Highlights

Expertly managed Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems including Xinet, Extensis Portfolio, and Adobe Bridge, ensuring seamless organization and retrieval of critical visual assets.

Developed comprehensive tagging schemas and metadata architectures, including the Pastyche Schema v5.1, for over 300TB+ visual archives, improving content discoverability and rights tracking.

Implemented storage solutions utilizing RAID and NAS, along with tools like ExifTool and ChronoSync, ensuring data integrity and long-term preservation of extensive visual collections.

Developed algorithms to correlate archival documents with artwork provenance, enhancing research capabilities and historical accuracy for the collection.

Education

NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Masters

Culture, Education, and Human Development

Ithaca College Roy H. Park School of Communication

Bachelors of Science

Communication

Languages

English
French