Thaddeus Harrington Email & Phone Number

As a service member and professional communicator I see roadblocks and problems as challenges to overcome. Using available resources in a creative, yet legal, way motivates me. I can remember getting my team on an airplane from the Baltimore, an 800-meter run to catch a connecting flight in Germany, picking up a rental car in Helsinki, Finland, and wondering what the third pedal was for. I eventually got the hang of driving stick shift on the highways of Helsinki to drive aboard a ferry to Tallinn, Estonia. Drove my teammates to the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Centers in the different quadrants of the nation. The mission was to train the EOD members, and my crew, on using new camera gear so they can communicate with the intended audience about the threat of unexploded ordnances. We used the EOD personnel, new camera, and medical equipment to create a video showing the dangers of UXOs. We conducted research in a crater-filled mosquito-infested woodland, once a WWII battlefield, which attracts artifact hunters. We witnessed an EOD dispatch to a construction site in a residential neighborhood where a 40mm mortar was found. After understanding the situations that citizens may face, we crafted a message specially to their audience and in their language. Using controlled detonations, creativity, and fake blood/limbs, we created our video. Before we departed for Maryland from the weeklong mission, the video Ara Puutu Pommi - Don’t touch the bomb was completed. Although the mission was brief, the impact from the partnership and potential lives save will be felt for years to come. Ara Puutu Pommi - Don’t touch the bombhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvIfANuD6qE

Listed skills include Photography, Military, Government, Army, and 23 others.