WDI Studios & DLE
This area includes Technology, R&D Disney Research, R&D AI Character Studio, and R&D Advanced Creative Development.
Tech & Engineering
Focuses the attention on the details of each component, finding ways to thoughtfully develop and communicate plans for the thousands of individual pieces that will one day come together as a cohesive whole.
Design
Analysis, Blue Sky, and Concept: determine the need, dream it, and develop it.
Create
Salaried Exempt
9000
Brings new entertainment offerings to fulfillment and is responsible for supporting sustainment and maintenance efforts of returning show offerings and pyro launch systems and infrastructure while working closely with operational teams.
Fireworks Designer
Started in Systems Engineering and has worked their way up to lead our Design and Delivery Studio.
Tommy Jones
The biggest WDI studio.
Design & Delivery
With the big idea, they move it forward into high-level creative development to begin to understand the specifics of how the experience will look, sound, smell, and feel.
Concept
Project Close-out and Operations/Sustainment: Document it and keep it going.
Sustain
Project Hire – Salaried Non-Exempt
9038
Supervises and coordinates all on-site construction activities through installation on projects and supervises the quality and safety in the field.
Superintendent
One of the newest Executives to return and has 20 years of experience within TWDC. Currently leading Creative Development.
Ali Rubinstein
This studio will drive the vision, franchise, master, and menu planning efforts to define project investments and future growth.
Global Creative Strategy
Gather around an inspiration: finding a way to bring a specific Disney story to life; imagining an attraction, themed land, or show for a particular park; advancing technology; or designing an entirely new line of business.
Blue Sky
Production and Opening: Buy, build, and fine tune it, and bring it to life.
Deliver
Project Hire – Salaried Exempt
9037
Accountable and responsible for tactical project management of Show scopes for WDI Projects large and small. The person leads all disciplines within the Show team on a project from blue sky through closeout and beyond.
Assistant Show Manager
Started with TWDC 10 years ago working on Entertainment projects in Hong Kong and Shanghai and is now the SVP for DLE.
David Lightbody
Through innovative storytelling and a culture of collaboration, this team creates, produces, and delivers the best live entertainment experiences in the world.
Disney Live Entertainment
Hard hats on heads and boots on the ground, Imagineers hit the field as the hundreds of systems and thousands of details are constructed, tested, and adjusted on the project site.
Installation
Development, Design, and Production: bring it all together, define and design it, and buy, build, and fine tune it.
Produce
Non-union hourly
9003
Provides technical oversight to the project team members performing tasks: blue sky system definition, mock-ups, theory of operation, circuit design, assembly design, system integration, facility sizing and supporting infrastructure, production, installation, and test and adjust.
Show Electric Engineer
With over 30 years at TWDC, this person is the VP-Muppets Studio/Live Characters Strategy.
Leigh Slaughter