Jeff Willson Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles

•Lead cross functional teams of artists, designers, directors and engineers to create, produce and articulate design direction creating the visual identity of Fox Sports•Gather input across teams and vendors to conceptualize major creative projects from inception through final delivery while anticipating burn to stay on schedule and budget•Develop processes and workflows that are nimble, custom and repeatable allowing for fast-moving, high-quality daily need while keeping focus on the wider view as a wholeBuilding relationships with key stakeholders: executives, operations, legal, artists, contractors and vendors while supervising associate producers, coordinators and pa’s•Projects embraced: Super Bowl LIV, 2020/21 World Series, FOX NFL, FOX NFL Sunday, Thursday Night Football, FOX UFC, College Football/Hoops and numerous studio shows

Houston, Tx

•Produce live half-hour and hour-long nightly news shows covering national and regional sports stories using strong editorial judgment•Discussed and developed storylines with news director, coordinating producer, reporters and producers for nightly and long term coverage•Produce original programming from conception to airing; responsibilities include, rundowns, interviews, setting up shoots, writing scripts, establish storylines, booking photographers, editing, graphics•Produce stimulating, informative and robust shows using creativity, pacing, flow and attention to details

•Create, build, prepare, manage and organize all graphics for live and studio events in SD and HD•Work closely with art director and graphics designers to translate their vision into the on-screen look•Provide training, manuals, instructions and support for live event graphics operators

•Designed, animated and produced on-screen graphics for all live studio events, including Avalanche and Nuggets games, original productions and promotional material•Helped create and maintained Duet graphics package that was used in all Nuggets and Mammoth live productions•Worked with senior and executive producers to constantly update the look of the network

•Produced tapes of classes for distance students using four cameras, a switching board and computer graphics•Conferred with professors on what was best for distance students•Taped for many different distribution types: VHS, web, DVD and satellite communication

•Produced and wrote new content such as photo galleries, archive sections and breaking news•Preformed maintenance on web site by updating headlines and news sections daily •Contributed to meeting to decide content i.e. stories, polls and special sections

•Selected from nationwide pool to work and learn at Walt Disney World Resort•Learned and upheld the high guest-service standards that made Disney World famous•Performed high-volume cash handling ($2,000+ daily), guest interaction, guest recovery

B.A, Technical Journalism; Technical Writing And Specialized Communications

Information Science and Technology (minor); 22 credits from four departments: Journalism, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering.

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