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Stamford, Connecticut, United States

Orlando, Florida, United States

Supports day to day operations through designing motion graphics for the Golf Central Newscasts, Playing Lessons, Golf Advisor: Round Trip, and Best Lessons Ever among other shows. Designs for additional motion graphics content for Golfpass and Golf Channel Promotions. Illustrates for storyboards, in-show content, and promotions utilizing hand-drawn animation through Procreate, Adobe Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere allowingGolf Channel Creative Solutions to take on projects that would normally go to a vendor.Brings Efficiency to Creativity by developing ways to speed up the workflow and rendering through optimizing templated After Effects Projects for Golf Central, Golf Advisor: Round-Trip, Best Lessons Ever, Feherty, and Promotional Greensheets.

Celebration, Florida

Built previously struggling music and technical teams to work cohesively and provide an organizational structure to scheduling, practice and service workflow. This greatly improved the caliber of the weekly church service.Leads the Praise, Worship and Technical Teams of Volunteers to carry out the production of each weekly church service working closely with the Pastoral and Leadership teams to ensure that the themes are weaved together seamlessly through the music and through the other components of the worship service.Trains, and recruits the church audio/visual crew to run and maintain camera equipment, control the soundboard during rehearsals and the church service, and manages presentation software in loading content and running presentations during the service. Leads in the production of weekly live-streamed church services to social media.Designs print, video and online media to engage the church in attending regular services and church events like Concerts, Social Nights and Large Seminars.

Orlando, Florida Area

Started Business: “Rising Owl Productions, LLC” providing media and design solutions to Advent Health, Churches, small businesses and short films. Delivered video, animation, and presentation projects to completion by presenting storyboards, orchestrating video shoots & interviews, adapting audio tracks to fit timing parameters, designing graphics, and fine-tuning the final edit to be presented internally, online, and for large presentations.

Hawaiian Islands

Refreshed and led in rebranding the design of graphics packages for a News Station that simulcasts on three stations, adhering to the branding guidelines of the affiliates (NBC, CBS and Raycom Media), yet celebrating the brand of our entity.Led a team of News Graphic Technicians through design training and implementing streamlined workflows and style-guides for the technicians in creating daily informational graphics and on-set designs.Designed motion graphics, logos, and special effects for News & Commercial Production for Client Commercials, on-air and online branding and promotion, and graphics for special events such as Sporting Events, Live Award/Music Shows, Political Debates/Elections, and for Breaking News.Developed designs and animations for Breaking News Events to get the public informed in a timely manner, from election data, natural disasters, safety concerns, and severe weatherOrganized graphics and story content in EDIUS systems for News Editors by creating graphics templates, preparing media for stories, organizing animations, and logging stock audio and image usage.

Hawaiian Islands

Collaborated with Producers, Reporters, and Anchors to write and shoot effective content for on-air and online production of daily topical promos, special news reports. Prepared scripts, storyboards and presentations, and media for sales clients and marketing promotion.Administered transfers and readying of CBS/NBC affiliate promotional content and Super Bowl and Olympic graphics packages from media pipelines to work within Master Control, News Systems and Production Switchers.Designed Video and Graphics for live productions. Refined archival systems to help producers and editors find all still graphics, animated graphics, and promotional content for News, Sports and Special Broadcasts.Provided Technical Repair skills in the upkeep and maintenance of the Marketing Department Computers and Graphics Systems.

Apple Store - Ala Moana

Certified Technician and Trainer. Resolved customer issues and provided support to continue relationships with Apple. Supported customers of from teens to adults in different types of Apple applications, devices, and workflows.Exceeded expectations as a Family Room Specialist to teach customers advanced editing techniques in Final Cut Pro and graphics in Motion, which was only taught by the Creative position when there were no Final Cut Pro trainers available.Conducted efficient and timely repair/educational appointments with customers.Kept updated with latest repair, system and application information for iOS and OS X programs and systems to provide knowledgeable support to customers.Skilled in creating reasonable solutions when dealing with difficult customer issues or behaviors during a repair or learning experience.

Hawaiian Islands

Connected with the Marketing and Art Directors in designing and readying daily informational graphics for news editorials and news set graphics for live broadcasts.Partnered with Engineers and Chyron Operators to prepare motion graphic designs for Sports and Special Event Broadcasts. Edited Affiliate Promotion to brand for local broadcasts of Network Shows.Supported News and Sports Editing in providing skills in sound editing, color-correction and special effects for News Packages, Special-Reports, and Live Segments.

Instructed vocal performance and piano lessons for students from children to adults.Designed posters, presentations, and videos for annual spring shows, promos, and advertising.Directed and coordinated recitals and performances for vocal and piano studentsGenerated content in video editing, graphics and music tracks for the students’ productionsRecorded students and artists for demo tapes and multi-track recordings