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Salvador Garza

Strategic communications · Visual storytelling · Creative technology · IT systems

A bilingual, multidisciplinary leader with more than twenty-five years of experience helping organizations communicate clearly, build dependable creative systems, and adopt useful new technology.

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Salvador Garza is a Houston-based strategic communications leader, visual storyteller, and creative technologist. Across more than twenty-five years, he has helped organizations turn complex ideas into clear narratives, dependable creative systems, and useful digital experiences.

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Salvador Garza works at the intersection of strategic communications, visual storytelling, creative technology, and spatial systems. Over more than twenty-five years, he has led teams and initiatives across the Americas, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific for organizations including HP, Cisco, Frontier Communications, CITGO, ConocoPhillips, Verizon, and Walmart. He is the founder of Brandtales and principal of DAM Technology Group, where he helps creative and geospatial teams improve the systems behind their work. His current practice includes reality capture, photogrammetry, GIS, and spatial storytelling. Salvador is bilingual in English and Spanish and is based in Houston, Texas.

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What I bring into the room.

Not a list of keywords. A set of perspectives that work together.

Leadership

Calm direction in complex, high-stakes work.

Executive collaboration, team development, business leadership, and cross-cultural communication.

Story

The ability to find meaning inside technical subjects.

Strategic communications, creative direction, film, photography, and content development.

Systems

A practical understanding of how the work gets made.

DAM, storage, networks, content operations, workflows, governance, and lifecycle management.

Learning

The habit of turning curiosity into useful capability.

AI, photogrammetry, GIS, reality capture, spatial computing, and field-data quality control.

Selected experience

A career built across creative work, technology, and teaching.

Brandtales.tv2014 to present

Chief Storyteller and Creative Director

Strategic communications, visual storytelling, business development, creative leadership, and international production.

DAM Technology GroupCurrent

Principal

Creative infrastructure, digital asset operations, geospatial systems, and field-to-office workflows.

ZapBoomBang Studios2015 to 2017

Senior Post-Producer and Editor

National advertising campaigns and high-volume post-production for Walmart, Verizon, Dodge, and Sonic.

TechOne Centre / MacAmerica2012 to 2013

Consulting Engineer and Trainer

Apple professional services, storage systems, disaster recovery, lifecycle management, and technical training.

Pixelop Studio and Pixelop Training1997 to 2012

Creative Producer and Principal Instructor

Political and corporate communications, studio leadership, and southeast Mexico's first Adobe Authorized Training Center.

Education and credentials

Engineering roots. Creative practice. Continuous learning.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electronics Systems Engineering
Tecnológico de Monterrey

Selected credentials

FAA Remote Pilot with sUAS Rating
AMA Professional Certified Marketer
Professional Scrum Master I
Apple Certified Trainer
Adobe Certified Instructor
Blackmagic Design Certified Trainer

Current focus

Marketing communications
Digital asset management
Creative operations and infrastructure
IT systems and networks
Workflow design and automation
Generative and agentic AI
Spatial media and reality capture

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