FILM & TV PRODUCTION
Field Producer - Line Producer - Director - AD
I focus on helping deploy the means of production and thrive behind the scenes. I'm happy to work in roles without direct creative control, but I've also developed skills and style in several creative mediums and can contribute broadly on small teams or step up and manage departments on larger ones.
With academic and professional experience in Interdisciplinary Research, Media Theory, Photography, Technical Writing, Sound Recording, Graphic Design, Civil Rights Documentaries, Narrative Storytelling, and Broadcast Television - I can easily adapt to new production styles and effectively coordinate collective efforts.
I have strengths in strategic planning, team building, resource and financial management, travel and logistics, ethical content development, and methodical refinement. I bring new perspectives to the problem and innovative solutions to the table.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Plants & Nature - Food & Hospitality - Studio & Product
I have been using cameras for 20 years. After taking Intro to Photography, I returned for six more semesters as an academic apprentice, helping teach my peers and exploring my own daily practice. I developed a deep foundation in making images and in teaching, which I further strengthened throughout my interdisciplinary education. I understand my tools deeply and my subjects broadly. In my personal life, I focus on macro photography with a passion for the infinite yet familiar patterns of life in nature. I also have experience in portraiture, landscape, travel/journalism, music, and abstract fine art.
I came up through Photography as a way of understanding the world around me, not as a way of projecting myself onto the world.
LIGHTING TECHNICIAN
Film G&E, Documentary, Journalism, Photography
I have experience with a wide range of lighting and grip tools and techniques in the studio and the field.
With a careful eye for consistency, efficiency, and safety, I save time and space with excellent spatial reasoning, trained color perception, and strong aesthetic awareness. I bring skills and sensibilities that comfortably adapt to new subjects, environments, and directors. I think that good gaffing is like good drumming - it becomes the foundation on which the other creative channels of visual storytelling sing.
SOUND RECORDING
Recording for Film, Doc, TV & Journalism
I wrote my first and last song when I was 14 after recorded it at my uncle's studio - during which I decided I wanted to become a sound engineer instead. After interning at Studio La Buissonne in the South of France at 19, I returned to college where I continued as a Sound Designer for indie films, home studio band recordings, and fieldwork for student documentaries mentored by UWEC and Framline International Film Festival in San Francisco.
My path eventually took me towards cameras, but I still run sound on many projects, most recently a documentary about a spiritual journey into rural Colombia. I bring careful attention and a strong foundation in physics and electronics. While not fully trained and experienced by film standards, I am proficient with a variety of workflows and can record quality audio for documentary and TV productions.
STUDIO MANAGEMENT
Design & Workflow - Maintenance - Logistics - Use
Between my jobs at UWEC and Champlain College, I have managed four different media production studios empowering countless projects. From music to photo, film, and multi-cam broadcast - I have many studio specific skills and technical expertise required to manage a studio.
I love building an environment where I can control every creative variable, full of tools and technical potential, investigating and developing new methodology. Moreover, I love to facilitate that experience for others - to co-create spaces that amplify communities, stories, and knowledge.
MEDIA EQUIPMENT
Management - Maintenance - Consulting - Education
From 2014 - 2018 I worked at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, where I was responsible for $500,000 of production equipment, three studios, and ten student employees. I took the job because it was an opportunity to rebuild their rental operation from the ground up. Over the next four years, I significantly improved both the college’s operational capabilities and the students’ production experience. My team and I worked hard to instill a culture of respect and care for the college’s equipment by training students to store, transport, and use it successfully. Since then, I’ve designed equipment inventories and SOPs for several companies. ALA Pictures maintains $100,000 of production equipment covering a wide range of filmmaking and photographic workflows.