Cristina Weinheimer is a creative leader and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience directing brand, digital, and studio work across agencies and startups from Costa Mesa, California. As Co-Founder and Creative Services Director at Kern & Turn Studios and Creative Director of ConceptZombie, she blends hands-on art direction with strategic studio operations and client-facing design leadership. She has taught design as an adjunct professor, bringing practical industry insight into the classroom while maintaining senior design roles at companies like Mint and Ultra Mobile. Beyond visual design, Cristina contributes to software testing infrastructure in open-source projects—bringing a detail-oriented QA mindset to developer tooling. Her background in advertising and long tenure in both agency and product environments give her a rare mix of creative scholarship (design history in training) and pragmatic production experience.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Costa Mesa High School
Bachelor's of Science, Advertising, Bachelor's of Science, Advertising at The Art Institute of California-Orange County
Factories and helper functions for (unit, integration, acceptance) testing + development scenarios with Ember Data
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 12 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Cristina primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure of the `ember-data-factory-guy` library, adding and modifying unit tests. They implemented new tests for features such as `mockUpdate.match` and enhanced existing testing methods. The changes include modifications to test helpers, serializers, and model definitions within the testing environment, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the library's functionality.
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Cristina Weinheimer - Co-Founder Creative Services Director