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Kabul, Afghanistan

• Communication: Regularly solicit, review, and address feedback from internal and external stakeholders to increase customer and employee satisfaction. Collaborate daily with Cultural Advisors, Social Scientists, Psychological Operations Planners, and Media Analysts. Attend classified briefings with high-ranking ISAF personnel to disseminate information up the chain of command. Conduct team meetings to address resolutions to issues.• Leadership: Use excellent teamwork and motivation skills to boost unity and morale. Coordinate and negotiate with team members, training and motivating others to accomplish work in an integrated, timely, effective, and high- quality manner to meet program objectives. Regularly take initiative to refine workflows and improve program effectiveness. Responsible for over $20,000 of equipment.• Multimedia: Create and deliver compelling video production and graphic design assets in support of TV and radio broadcast products (e.g. broadcast TV, promos, and documentaries) for a forward deployed Military Information Support Operations unit. Combine video, graphic design, graphic animation, digital imagery, sound effects, and musical scores. Plan, manage, and direct multimedia information and products through consultation, design, development, procurement, production, and reproduction. Executes source changes and live edits through control of complex broadcast equipment. Respond to fast-breaking national events requiring creative program changes, exercising sound judgment and editorial decision-making. Recommended reallocation and reprogramming of funds to accommodate changes in schedules or priorities.

Kabul, Afghanistan

• Communication: Regularly solicit, review, and address feedback from internal and external stakeholders to increase customer and employee satisfaction. Collaborate daily with Cultural Advisors, Social Scientists, Psychological Operations Planners, and Media Analysts. Attend classified briefings with high-ranking ISAF personnel to disseminate information up the chain of command. Conduct team meetings to address resolutions to issues.• Leadership: Use excellent teamwork and motivation skills to boost unity and morale. Coordinate and negotiate with team members, training and motivating others to accomplish work in an integrated, timely, effective, and high- quality manner to meet program objectives. Regularly take initiative to refine workflows and improve program effectiveness. Responsible for over $20,000 of equipment.• Multimedia: Create and deliver compelling video production and graphic design assets in support of TV and radio broadcast products (e.g. broadcast TV, promos, and documentaries) for a forward deployed Military Information Support Operations unit. Combine video, graphic design, graphic animation, digital imagery, sound effects, and musical scores. Plan, manage, and direct multimedia information and products through consultation, design, development, procurement, production, and reproduction. Executes source changes and live edits through control of complex broadcast equipment. Respond to fast-breaking national events requiring creative program changes, exercising sound judgment and editorial decision-making. Recommended reallocation and reprogramming of funds to accommodate changes in schedules or priorities.

Fort George G Meade, Md

• Leadership: Supervised, evaluated, trained, counseled, and recommended actions for proficiency and advancement, remediation, recycles, and eliminations during the 66-­‐day course. Prepared, administered, and graded written and performance exams. Trained incoming instructors on responsibilities. Responsible for over $60,000 of equipment.• Multimedia: Provided instruction and training to 120 DOD military students annually. Developed and revised course instructional and testing material to include lesson plans, performance exercises, and written tests.

Fort George G Meade, Md

• Leadership: Served as Squad Leader for six soldiers in the U.S. Army's only active duty Combat Camera Signal Company. Responsible for training, maintenance, and operations of a squad prepared for rapid worldwide deployment. Responsible for the health and welfare of six Soldiers and over $1,000,000 of equipment.• Multimedia: Provided visual combat video and still photography documentation support for operational and contingency missions mandated by the Department of the Army, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Supervised and oversaw production, editing, delivery, posting and archiving of all video content. Provided editorial guidance for the on-time execution of daily, weekly, and monthly productions scheduled for in-house editing and post production finishing. Operated and performed unit level maintenance on motion, still, and studio TV cameras. Prepared captions for documentation images. Operated electronic and film-based processing, editing, audio, and printing darkroom equipment. Managed and programmed trans-coding devices to ensure proper operation and to respond to changing client’s needs in accordance with industry and agency technical standards.

Camp As Sayliyah - Doha, Qatar

• Leadership: Served as the Battalion Multimedia Supervisor for a forward stationed strategic signal battalion supporting US Central Command and joint combined commands in Central and Southwest Asia. Served as the Battalion Liaison Officer, directly responsible for the movement of more than 100 Soldiers and 335 Civilians in the battalion. Responsible for over $300,000 of equipment.• Multimedia: Captured, edited, archived, and managed battalion photo and video archives and historical multimedia production of events throughout Afghanistan, Qatar, and Iraq in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Fort Bragg, Nc

• Leadership: Served as the Group Message Center Supervisor for the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) information Management Office.• Multimedia: Created illustrations, layouts, map overlays, posters, graphs, and charts. Produced computer-generated graphics. Drew cartoons for filmstrips and animation for films. Worked with TV and film producers to design backdrops and props for film sets.• Technology: Oversaw the security screening, requesting submission, retrieval, and distribution of SIPRNET / NIPRNET passwords. Managed incoming and outgoing message traffic. Oversaw the application and approval process of Capabilities Requests.

Fort Bragg, Nc

• Leadership: Served as the Battalion Multimedia Office Supervisor for a Special Operations Airborne Signal Battalion supporting the United States Army and Joint Operations Command and its subordinate units.• Multimedia: Oversaw the design and production of multimedia graphic illustrations, visual information presentations, and activities. Captured and archived the unit’s historical still and video documentation. Set policies for post production and media management. Recommended policy adjustments through out the production enterprise. Prepared short and long term budget submissions and monitored expenditures and obligations

Fort Hood, Tx

• Leadership: Served as the Brigade Multimedia Office Supervisor. Responsible for the leadership, training, welfare, and supervision of five soldiers during daily operations; responsible for over $60,000 of equipment.• Multimedia: Oversaw the creation and production of all illustrations, command level presentations, posters, graphs, map overlays, artwork, and all other multimedia products for the brigade.

Teagu, Korea | Fort Sill, Ok | Darmstadt, Germany | Fort Drum, Ny

• Communication: Liaised with and advised officers in developing data for Overseas Development Training.• Leadership: Served as the Battalion Multimedia Office Supervisor.• Multimedia: Developed and prepared charts, overlays, and graphic documentation for a brigade level rear operations. Screened subordinate units training input to ensure accuracy and feasibility. Responsible for the creation and production of all illustrations, command level presentations, posters, graphs, map overlays, artwork, and all other multimedia products.

Digital Film Certification, Digital Filmmaking

Associates, General Studies

Basic Multimedia Illustrator Instructor Certification, Multimedia Production And Design

Senior Leadership Certification

Advanced Leadership Certification

Basic Multimedia Illustration Certification, Manual And Digital Graphic Design