Recruit and cultivate relationships with non-profit, corporate, and commercial clients. Work directly with clients to conceptualize, create, and publish marketing and communications pieces across digital, social, and traditional media. Coordinate, produce, and edit photo and video projects. Hire, supervise, and manage relationships with part-time employees and freelance videographers as needed. Develop strategic communications plans and create content for all Droi Media social accounts. Utilize digital analytics to better craft future visual marketing campaigns (both for clients and business). Develop and teach photography, video production, video editing, social media, and filmmaking workshops for organizations and businesses. Regularly guest lecture for high school and college classes. Create and share educational content for other freelancers and filmmakers through my YouTube channel, Blog, and Newsletter. Have been a guest on multiple small business, creative, freelance, and filmmaking related podcasts.

Oversaw the production of documentary films for broadcast on the Big Ten Network (BTN), on YouTube, and across official University social media channels. Established relationships and communicate with stakeholders and subjects across campus. Managed a team of employees and interns to help with the production and editing of documentary films for broadcast and related videos for use across websites and social media. Researched, conceptualized, and coordinated long-term documentary film projects. Coordinator for a campus-wide communicators group where I develop and host workshops on a variety of best practices for social media, video, photo, marketing, and communications.

Created and taught semester-long courses on journalism, communication, and video production. Managed a team of student reporters, designers, and photographers for the weekly campus newspaper. Taught journalism-related workshops for the newspaper employees. Edited the weekly campus newspaper for both print and digital platforms. Started social media accounts for the newspaper to better engage with target audiences.

Developed and taught journalism, converged media, video production, and visual media courses. Responsible for creating and overseeing the portfolio progression program for communications students (they would create portfolio websites during an entry-level course and add to them throughout their time at the University, and then I would do a portfolio review their senior year). Worked with students to create and grow their online presence and professional brands, primarily through social media.

Oversaw the production of video marketing materials for Illinois State University. Hired and managed a team of video production interns. Led the University's online video presence and used data to measure engagement / success. Worked directly with the Social Media team to strategically craft video campaigns to engage target audiences. Wrote and produced a variety of long and short form marketing videos for the University.

Produced written, photo, and video content for more than 20 online blog and print publications. Worked with clients in a variety of industries to visually communicate and promote their latest products and services. Wrote, produced, and directed live broadcasts from various trade shows around the U.S.

Duties included pre-production, filming, and editing of video marketing materials. Managed all online video content, including revamp of YouTube channel. Started Social Media Awards program and implemented campus-wide social media and video brand standards.

Operated proprietary spherical camera equipment for virtual tours and street-level mapping around tour locations. Worked as part of a 2-person team that traveled and filmed in a different major U.S. city every month.

I shot football, volleyball and basketball games for live in-house production, made and operated graphics for promotions, scores, and highlights using Photoshop, and ran in-game replays and post-game highlights.

I shot arena football and minor league hockey for live in-house production, made and operated graphics for promotions, scores and highlights using Photoshop and GenCG, and ran in-game replays as well as post-game and online highlights.

A show similar to Dirty Jobs in which my co-host and I joined organizations to show students how they could get involved around the campus community. This award-winning show ran weekly on local cable, and my responsibilities included setting up times and locations with group presidents and faculty advisors, and interviewing group members, club presidents and faculty advisors on camera to discuss organization history, club events and future goals of the club. In addition I wrote and edited show promos, shot additional footage and b-roll, and assisted in editing the show on AVID.

TV10 News is a student run and produced news program with live daily 30-minute newscasts, I shot and edited award-winning photoessays, packages, VO's and VO/SOT's for daily newscasts.