About Me

I am a 2007 graduate of Ithaca College with a degree in Television-Radio, and a minor in Screenwriting. I am currently seeking employment in the Los Angeles area in the television / film / multimedia industry. Eventually, I hope to produce documentaries or reality tv programs.

Experience

• Video Editing
  I have countless hours of experience editing documentaries and reality tv, as well as scripted television programs. For my recent reality tv show, "The Race", I edited over 200 hours of footage into 9 hour-long episodes. I also was the lead editor for the Ithaca College Admissions video "How I See IC", where six students were given videocameras and asked to tape their day-to-day experiences over the course of an entire semester.


• Video Production
  I have acted as Director of Photography in several formats, including documentaries, sketch comedy, and scripted drama. I was also a camera operator for season 2 of TLC's "Flip That House".


• Web Design
  I have been designing websites since I was in middle school, starting with my website about QBasic programming, and then continuing on to paid work for clients. I know PHP scripting, and how to compile a large, interactive, database-driven website. Check out my latest web and multimedia project, ICTV.org.


• Writing & Documentary Story Editing
  I studied Screenwriting at Ithaca College, and have a strong sense of how to tell a story. I have experience writing feature-length scripts and treatments; and have also created & written three comedy pilots, two of which I have produced. Additionally, I know how to discover and edit a compelling documentary story from raw footage, a skill which I've honed through production internships at documentary production companies Log In Productions and Actual Reality Pictures. I also am the creator and managing editor of a monthly online magazine about computer programming entitled "QB Express" -- which has over 5,000 readers.


• Animation
  I have extensive animation experience in both Flash and After Effects, and also am a talented artist. At Ithaca College, I created, produced, directed and animated a half-hour comedy series called "Unicorn Boy" -- the first entirely-animated series for Ithaca College Television. I also have experience making short animated promos and logo graphics.

Personal Interests

I feel like I am a storyteller at heart, and there is nothing I love more than sharing my experiences and knowledge with other people. Whether it's ghost stories around a campfire, writing a magazine article or creating a television program, communicating with other people is what I do best.

Although most of the work I do involves computers and the internet, I feel more at home in the outdoors. I come from a small town in upstate New York that doesn't even have a stoplight, and I was born and raised close to the outdoors. I am an Eagle Scout, and I go camping, hiking, canoeing and kayaking on a regular basis. My father produces primitive weapons called atlatls for a living, and I have quite a bit of knowledge about Native Americans, primitive technology and wilderness survival.

My passion is documentaries, because I feel that the most interesting and surprising stories in the world are those that have actually happened. My hope is to one day produce feature-length docs about compelling characters, that have the look and feel of feature films.