Responsible for ensuring and improving quality, efficiency, and profitability of all live action productions, I lead a department with 7 direct reports. Managing a department that bills $2-$3 million annually for clients such as CubeSmart, Fox Chase Cancer Center, and Deloitte, I quickly improved a siloed and inefficient team by implementing countless new procedures and standards to achieve the company's goals and strengthen individuals' skills and output. I helm videos myself as a producer and director ranging in scope from $10,000-$150,000 and complexity from talking heads to branded docs to narrative commercial campaigns. I am a member of the company's 4-person Leadership team guiding the strategy and direction of the company. I continually build new and strengthen existing relationships with vendors and freelancers.

Creative and operational lead for the Film & Motion department overseeing all projects from concept to delivery at a 50 person ad agency. With an annual budget of ~$3 million, our budgets ranged from $10,000 for stock image sizzles to $350,000 for multi-day live action shoots, and I managed them all with the same drive and purpose. Our clients included Comcast, CVS, Aetna, Organon, The Quell Foundation, and Arcudi Wines. I was responsible for the creative and practical execution of no fewer than 10, sometimes up to 30, active videos at any given time.• Director of film shoots, leading all phases of production.• Produced live action projects with outside directors and production companies.• Supervised a team of 8 direct reports plus an ever changing roster of freelancers.

Continued to edit our high profile videos, while creative directing additional live action and animation projects, and directed live action productions. Promoted to Department Head and moved into a leadership and management role.I led the team through rapid and difficult changes due to COVID. I took on more direct reports, established remote workflows, designed virtual productions, and developed a deeper understanding of motion design disciplines.

Lead film editor for the agency working on projects of varying length for air, web, internal comms, and events.• Technical lead for the department; created end-to-end project workflow, established a shared storage system, developed backup and archiving processes, and built an edit suite.• Developed expertise in color correction, mixing, and networking.• Edited feature length documentary, Lift the Mask, for The Quell Foundation.

• Editor of Hot Lap, a half-hour online show for AmericanMuscle.com.• Edited product videos for AmericanMuscle.com and ExtremeTerrain.com.• Oversaw color-correction, audio mixing, graphics, export, and delivery of all videos.

• Managed high-profile accounts, including L’Oréal, Maybelline, Breathe Right, Chevron, and Verizon • Edited commercials, pitches, and rips as well as cut downs and revisions for countless projects • Implemented efficiency protocols, created company wide organizational procedures, and researched innovative solutions for technical complications

• Worked with a wide range of edit houses including The White House, Bionic Media, Go Robot, Cut+Run, Rock Paper Scissors, and Jump • Adapted quickly to each house’s protocols, systems, and idiosyncrasies• Enhanced expertise in the field, including but not limited to editing, graphics, and encoding

Produced original written and video content for online literary humor site s​tevesword.com.Gained experience in website construction, viral marketing, and conceptualizing columns and articles.Developed skills in managing a team and corralling and motivating contributors.

• Started as apprentice and was promoted to cutting assistant after 6 months • Acquired invaluable skills of the trade such as ingesting and organizing dailies, prepping for and supervising finishing sessions, and mastering NYC public transportation• Learned the craft of editing itself from some of the industry’s best editors