Summary
Waylena Mccully is a producer with over a decade of experience crafting immersive science content and live programming for fulldome and classic planetarium systems. Based in Champaign, Illinois, she specializes in Digistar 6 operations, content customization, and real-time interactive presentations that enhance audience engagement. Equally comfortable with prerecorded shows, she has a knack for integrating open-source graphics tools into production workflows and teaching peers to adopt them. Her background in geography and coursework in computer systems, animation, and graphic design give her a rare mix of spatial thinking and technical production skills. Colleagues rely on her both as a presenter and as the go-to technician for maintaining complex planetarium hardware and interfaces. An advocate for open-source solutions, she quietly champions accessible toolchains that empower other planetarium professionals.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Geography, Bachelor, Geography at University of Toledo
Successful coursework in computer operating systems and hardware, animation and graphic design., Successful coursework in computer operating systems and hardware, animation and graphic design. at Parkland College