COMPANIES:

Below are a list of companies that I have worked with over the past couple of years. Feel free to browse through some of my recaps.

• RK Productions/2008 Democratic National Convention
• NFL
• ESPN: Winter X Games
• CMT
• Altitude
• Channel 4 San Diego
• Joe Mertz Production Consulting
• FSN Rocky Mountain
• Colorado Rockies
• CPG/Citizen Pictures
• 3 Ball Productions & CW Network
• Jerry Bruckheimer Films
• NBC Nightly News
• UN Me Films
• Atlantic Video
• NBA TV
• TV 16


I began work on the 2008 Democratic Convention four days before the event at Invesco Field was set to occur and the party's leading candidate accept his nomination. As being part of history, I feel blessed to have worked this event. I was working as a utility and spent days running cables and setting up equipment around Invesco Field at Mile High. This is probably the second largest production that I ever worked on and it was nice to see how quick things go up and then even how quicker it all comes down.



After being in the Denver market long enough, I was able to get my name onto numerous freelancer e-mail lists. In August of 2008 I was crewed to work a preseason NFL Football game at Invesco Field. I was a utility on this gig and responsible for setting up and breaking down the equipment. During the actual game however, I was given a sideline credential and was a parab operator. It was a fun time and I hope to work more NFL games in the future.



While back in Virginia visiting my parents during the 2007 Christmas Holiday, members of the ESPN Winter X Games contacted me and booked me to work as a runner during the games. After my resume made it to the appropriate party, I was later contacted and bumped up to the only Chyron Operator for the Event Production side of the games. I arrived at the games on a Monday and worked the rest of the week building the show and transferring graphics and layouts from a Deko system to be used on the DUET. The hours were long, but the end satisfaction of working the games was all worth it and I hope to be fortunate enough to work with a wonderful crew again in the future. Some of my examples can be found on my graphics page.



Having worked with 3 Ball Productions Earlier in the year and staying in contact with people, I was contacted in December of 2007 to work on the Reality Show: The Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search which was being shot in the Denver area. I was an everything P.A. along with about 7 other people. I was responsible for everything from going on runs, to putting down layout board, to operating as a camera tech. This was certainly one of my favorite productions to have worked on.



In September of 2007, I came on with Altitude Sports & Entertainment as one of their On-Call Employees, working mainly in the studio as a Camera Operator and occasional Fill-In Chyron Op. I worked with the company through the '08-'09 Season of both NHL and NBA and some additional shows, such as Summits, which is basically a sports round-up show.



When the Colorado Rockies tied with the San Diego Padres in 2007, there was a tie breaker game the next day. After going into extra innings, the Rockies won the game, thus proceeding into post-season. Channel 4 in San Diego needed a camera operator for locker room interviews and so they hired me on the spot and I clocked out of my job with the Rockies and in with Channel 4, interviewing athletes like legendary closer Trevor Hoffman after a heartfull loss.

In October of 2007, I was contacted via Production Hub by Joe Mertz Consulting to be a P.A. for their production at the Cable Center for Madden Miles This gig was mostly working on a event production side and lasted only a few hours.



In July of 2007, I interviewed with FSN Rocky Mountain and was offered to come on as a freelancer in the studio. My title there was a Production Assistant. I operated editing packages on a linear system, in addition to running camera for the studio shows, mainly the Post-Game during the '07 Season. Once Baseball was finished, I became the stage manager on remotes for the entire season of High School Football and finished working with FSN for the season at the 4A and 5A State Championship. I returned to FSN RM in 2008 as a freelancer, working mainly editing until June of this year when the main director tapped me as the main weekend Chyron Operator. I stayed with FSN through September of '08.



In June of 2007, I interviewed with the Colorado Rockies and on the 4th of July of that year I was called to come in and start training on the EVS system. About two weeks later, I was called and offered the position of an In-Game Entertainment Production Assistant and was to start the next day at 8am. I was working in the JumboTron Department, assisting with Designing Graphics, both still and motion, and also edited videos. I worked all home games during the remainder of the season and was fortunate enough to be part of the playoff and world series run, even though the team lost. It was an amazing experience and I thoroughly enjoyed my time at this position.



Right before I left to move out to Colorado, I worked one last gig in Washington D.C. and this was for CPG or who is now known as Citizen Pictures. The show that they were producing was called Giada's Weekend Getaways for the Food Network with chef Giada De Laurentiis. The gig for me started with pre-production work of going to all the sites and getting parking meter numbers for the company to reserve during the production. Once we started, we went to several restaurants around the area and shot Giada with her normal tasting and reviews.



In May of 2007, having started packing all of my stuff to move to Colorado, I got myself a gig working the casting of Beauty and the Geek and proved to be the best P.A. on the gig, that I was asked to stay on a few extra days for casting producer's final round of interviews. This was great to make contact with some of the top casting directors in the Reality Realm of T.V.



In March of 2007, I heard that Jerry Bruckheimer was returning to the Washington D.C. area to shoot a second National Treasure and that this one would be called, Book of Secrets. I called the L.A. Production office to get the number for the D.C. Production Office and a few days later I was contacted for a local crew meeting and filled out paper work to begin work on my first feature film. The hours and work on this film were tough, but being part of such a large production was amazing and the experience that I gained working it is certainly something that you can't gain on a normal small TV production. I completed work on this film in mid-late April and decided by then that I was going to move to Colorado.



NBC Nightly News, Washington D.C. Bureau began training me to be their main backup Deko Operator, but with the Digital and H.D. switch, the position was diminished and I found other work.

My first freelance gig that I did when I graduated from undergrad was for a UN Me Films and it was a documentary about global warming. We shot some commentators at a hotel in D.C. and then interviewed two senators at the capital building. This gig was low budget, but paid for me and was something that craigslist panned out on.



I received my internship with Atlantic Video from David Tidler while attending NAB in 2005 with my school. I started my internship during the last week of May. I was one of 6 other interns during this time. I started my experience working in the Duplications Department, assisting with making dubs and creating labels for clients. After a few weeks here, I began to work as the main P.A. for remotes around the area. I was a P.A. for the taping of a Special Olympics training video, teaching athletes how to use this new piece of equipment. At this gig, I was also a boom operator. Another gig that I was a P.A. for was the History Channel's "National History Day" . Here I was responsible for crowd control, among other standard P.A. duties. My main P.A. gig was for the Regional Medical Series called A New Me. At the end of the 2005 summer, I returned to school and in the summer of 2006 I returned to Atlantic Video to continue gaining experience and working with the top production company in the Washington D. C. area. Upon my return and having proved how eager and motivated that I was to learn the aspects of T.V. Production, I was given the opportunity to sit in with the main Chyron Operator and begin training on the system and the two ESPN shows produced at these studios; Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption. After a summer of training, I was eventually operating the Duet System completely on my own and proved to me a asset, however, I chose to return to school for my final semester and thus completed all my knowledge and work with Atlantic Video. I still maintain contact with references there and this company will always be my home.



While a student at Harding University, NBA TV contacted our communications department to travel to Little Rock and shoot four NBA D-League Games of the former Arkansas RimRockers at the Alltel Arena. I was part of this crew and chose the position of being a hand-held camera operator on the floor of the arena. This was a total student production, but turned out to be great and did air on NBA TV.



Also while a student, I worked two semesters for the University's Cable TV Station TV16, which happens to be an affiliate of CNN. During these two semesters, I operated as a Graphics Coordinator, designing OTS graphics for the nightly news casts.