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.
• 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 and.

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