SUMMARY
Jack-of-all-trades writer, producer, shooter, & editor with extensive experience creating social video, documentary, news, and digital advertising content.
SKILLS
CAMERA
Established shooter with Canon C100, C300, Sony FS7.
KIT: Canon XC-15 w/ tripod & Sennheiser lav mics
LIGHTING
Experienced at lighting studio shoots and field interviews.
POST PRODUCTION
Adobe suite: Premiere, After Effects, Audition, Photoshop.
Thorough understanding of post process from ingest to output.
EDITING RIG:
2021 Mac mini
3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7
64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 RAM
Blue Yeti mic
EXPERIENCE
PRODUCER / SHOOTER / EDITOR / WRITER
Freelance
AUGUST 2020 - PRESENT
Freelance video creator for commercial projects, news outlets, and independent films.
Projects include: launching a Snapchat Discover show for astrology app Sanctuary, script edits and reel cutting for independent filmmakers, editing quickturn content for The Verge, social media content for MTV
CREATIVE PRODUCER / EDITOR
Electric Monster - Now Scaring
MARCH 2022 - JUNE 2022
Selecting, editing, and delivering short video clips from Sony’s horror film archive for use on the Now Scaring YouTube channel. Researched clips using social media trends and SEO optimization. Ideated and wrote captions for social video platforms including TikTok and Snapchat.
PRODUCER / SHOOTER / EDITOR
Gizmodo
MAY 2017 - SEPT 2020
Pitching, shooting, & editing scripted & unscripted videos, in studio and in field.
Highlights:
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Last of the Iron Lungs. 40 million views and a shoutout from Bill Gates.
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Gizmodo Meets Sophia the Robot. 500k views.
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How To Preserve a Jim Henson Puppet. 800k views.
PRODUCER
Time Inc.
JANUARY 2017 - MAY 2017
Freelance producer for Time Inc.’s personal finance series Coinage. Researched, pitched, scripted, produced videos aimed at millennials Videos accumulated 22.1 million views across Time Inc.’s verticals since launch in early February.
LEAD VIDEO PRODUCER
Vice on Snapchat Discover
AUGUST 2016 - JANUARY 2017
Producing and shooting daily video from concept to post in Snapchat’s vertical format. Sole producer on this project responsible for all video output. Video piece “Hangover Cures” set channel record for viewership numbers: one million views in 24 hours.
PRODUCER & ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Vice Media
OCTOBER 2014 – AUGUST 2016
Pitching, logistics, field producing for a variety of online documentaries. Extensive experience in salvaging troubled projects. Highlights include:
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American Obsessions: Sailor Moon. 3 million+ views on web and VICELAND TV channel.
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LARPing Saved My Life. 3 million+ views on web and VICELAND TV channel.
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Triple Hate: KKK vs. Crips vs. Memphis City Council. 10 million views.
POST PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Vice Media
MAY 2012 – OCTOBER 2014
Managed and scheduled a team of approximately 40 editors and assistant editors with an average of 120 weekly projects in post. Maintained an orderly workflow for production management, producers, and post-production staff.
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
CNN – “American Morning”
MAY 2011 – NOVEMBER 2011
Worked overnight shifts running TelePrompTer and distributing scripts.
EDUCATION
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Dual degree:
B.S. Media, Culture, and Communication.
B.A. Broadcast Journalism
Presidential Scholar: scholarship awarded to top 5% of NYU students.
