Doug is a co-founder of Big Rock Creative, a XR company producing large scale events in VR. Big Rock’s first large project, BRCvr, created a fully immersive Burning Man festival in social VR starting in 2020 which generated much positive PR including an article in Wired Magazine. Big Rock won the Producer's Guild Innovation Award and the Aurea Award.  They have since worked on projects ranging from directing an XR music video featuring Pitbull, facilitating a Hollywood red carpet premiere in VR or creative directing the VR version of "Breonna's Garden" that premiered in SXSW 2022 and won the Auggie that same year for Best Societal Impact. Most recently they teamed up with Microsoft to launch “Pride has no borders” - an interactive event space and exhibit in virtual reality. Currently, his time is spent building BurnerSphere, a fully immersive documentary filmed over several years of Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert. 

Doug’s background is in the film industry, he graduated from USC film school in the 90s with honors. Over the course of my career, he has written, directed, produced, and edited several festival award-winning narratives and documentaries.  His documentaries focused on sub-cultured like the history of the renaissance faire or a peek behind the adult industry.  He is also a member of the Television academy (Emmys) and the Producers Guild of America. 

A lover of technology and new ways of storytelling, Doug has been spending time in VR - shooting 3D video, building worlds, and guiding new users through Alternative realities in digital space.