Professional Objective
To fuse my desire to create new and exciting imagery with storytelling and emotion in a professional work environment where problems are seen as challenges and creativity is used to solve them.
Education
The Savannah College of Art & Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts Film and Television, 2003
Accomplishments
Animation Director, National Winner SCION Xpress Fest music video contest - 2006
The Scion XPress Fest is a competition where filmmakers compete creatively for a chance to make a fully funded music video, to have the video screened for industry insiders, and to win a $20,000 Grand Prize. Consisting of on-set directing and supervision of all effects shots while also single handedly animating all the elements involving animation in this 3 minute piece.
Portfolio Scholarship Winner, The Savannah College of Art & Design - 1999-2003
A robust and impressive hand drawn and digital portfolio garnered critical praise and won a $10,000 scholarship throughout each year of my college education.
Experience
Director, EyeBoogie Inc. , 7 Eleven / City Explorer Summer of Slurpee; Los Angeles CA-2008
Directed a group of grade school skateboarding pros on a hot summer day, with only ice cold Slurpees to cool them.
Director, EyeBoogie Inc. , 7 Eleven / City Explorer Proprietary Product table tops; Los Angeles CA-2008
My responsibilities included conceiving the overall style of the proprietary food product promotions, creating style frames for motion graphics vendors, coordinating with clients on set and cutting the spots into an overall sales tape.
Director, EyeBoogie Inc. , 7 Eleven / City Explorer Tide Pen Promotion; Los Angeles CA-2008
I directed a promotional spot announcing Tide’s new stain removing pen to 7 Eleven stores.
Director, EyeBoogie Inc. , MSN Pop of the Day; Los Angeles CA-2008
Pop of the Day airs daily on MSN.com and revisits moments in pop culture history with a funny sketch or witty animation. I directed many spots for the show’s “april calendar”.
Motion Graphics, Animation, Rondovie, Sony C Spot Space is the Place; Los Angeles CA-2008
I created a title sequence that illustrates the show’s lighthearted take on a sprawling sci-fi epic.
Motion Graphics, Animation, Rondovie, Sony C Spot The Rascal Title Sequence; Los Angeles CA-2008
Tasked with amping up the graphics and titles for this modern, comedic spin on an action series, I created the title sequence and transitional elements designed to add action and energy to multiple episodes.
Motion Graphics, Animation, EyeBoogie Inc. , Warner Bros. Drew’s Clues; Los Angeles CA-2008
My responsibilities on this included creating graphical imagery designed to delivery “extra” information to children which is integrated into Warner Bros. feature film Nancy Drew.
Lead Editor, EyeBoogie Inc. , SOAPnet Daytime Emmy Awards Webcast; Los Angeles CA 2008
SOAPnet’s Daytime Emmy Award coverage included webcams given to celebrities at tables inside The Kodak Theater. Celebrities filmed themselves and each other and the cameras were run backstage and I led a team of editors in cutting and uploading the footage to SOAPnet’s streaming webcast.
Lead Editor, Motion Graphics lead, EyeBoogie Inc. , REELZ Channel Movie Mob; Los Angeles CA-2007 - 2008
Movie Mob consists of everyday people reviewing movies on webcam with a turn around time of only 2-3 days from recording to air. This ambitious schedule forced me to create quick rough cuts for network approval while creating and utilizing custom graphics each week.
Design, Animation, EyeBoogie Inc. , REELZ Channel Movie Mob Title Sequence; Los Angeles CA-2007
I was responsible for the logo design and created a custom Title Sequence for Movie Mob which included hundreds of hopeful people around the country during our audition process.
Editor, Motion Graphics, EyeBoogie Inc. , MSN Pop of the Day; Los Angeles CA-2007
Pop of the Day airs daily on MSN.com and revisits moments in pop culture history with a funny sketch or witty animation. My responsibilities included editing various episodes and creating motion graphics for other editors. I was also responsible for encoding and delivering every episode to MSN.
Lead Editor, Motion Graphics lead, EyeBoogie Inc. , MSN The Big Debate; Los Angeles CA-2007
My responsibilities in launching MSN’s first original webshow included everything from on set HD media capture, HD footage ingestion, editing multiple shows daily, creating all graphics, transitions and picture separations and delivery to MSN via FTP servers. The show garnered critical acclaim and had over 1 million distinct views a week.
Motion Graphics lead, EyeBoogie Inc. , E! Television Crazy Hollywood Nights; Los Angeles CA-2007
A quick production schedule using both AVID and Final Cut systems necessitated that I create a workflow to move uncompressed footage from the AVID to FCP and After Effects for the creation of graphic elements. After Effects was used to create the main title sequence along with the transitions and graphical “jokes”. I then supervised the delivery of all graphics to the AVID editor.
Director, Online HD Editor, SFX animator, Feature Film We Stand Alone;Savannah GA 2005-2006
I recently completed this 80 minute feature film on Final Cut Studio in DVCPro HD. All titles and effects were also completed in After Effects and Shake.
Director, Feature Film Midway Down; Multi-State - 2006
Co-Directed this cross country trek following 2 actors in search of America. Run and gun production methodology demonstrated my ability to shoot quick and cheap despite the location.
Director, Online AVID Symphony Editor, Feature Film Snap; Savannah GA-2003-2004
Shot on 35mm film when I was 22, SNAP demonstrated a production technique that put the most bang per dollar amount on screen. Shot for $20,000
Related Skills
extremely knowledgeable with:
Final Cut Pro (HD and Studio), After Effects, Shake, Photoshop, Illustrator, DVD Studio Pro, Compressor, Web based compression techniques, AVID Symphony, AVID Adrenaline, Word, Excel, Movie Magic Screenwriter, Final Draft
