Summary

I am a Union Editor (Local 700) in Los Angeles. For 10 years I have worked in Post Production as both an Editor, Post Supervisor, and Assistant Editor. I am fluent in Avid, Premiere, After Effects, Pro Tools, Audition, Photoshop, And Illustrator.

Credits

7/20 – 9/20

Editor (Premiere) The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards

YouTube — Digital — Done and Dusted Productions Details
7/20 – 9/20

Edit Nominee reels as well as celebration reels for the years struggle with COVID. I was also at the awards to cut the live feed from the on site truck to upload online.

8/19 – 3/20

Assistant Editor (Premiere) Drunk History (Season 7)

Comedy Central — TV — Cranetown Media Details
8/19 – 3/20

Cut sequences for editors, created VFX including map artwork, compositing, and green screen replacement. Show was canceled due to COVID-19 so this season never aired.

7/19 – 9/19

Editor (Premiere) The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards

YouTube — Digital — Don Mischer Productions Details
7/19 – 9/19

Edit Nominee reels as well as promotional videos for the venue and event for their website prior to the main event, as well as cut the live feed from the on site truck at the award show to upload online.

9/18 – 5/19

Assistant Editor (Premiere) Drunk History (Season 6)

Comedy Central — TV — Comedy Central Productions Details
9/18 – 5/19

I worked as an assistant editor, but my duties also included VFX editing (606: Drugs featured my VFX) along with map designs for editors (614: Behind Enemy Lines) and prebuilt VFX replacement (I placed the new images into the season six opening credits)

7/18 – 9/18

Editor The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards

YouTube — Digital — Television Academy of Arts & Sciences Details
7/18 – 9/18

Edit Nominee reels as well as promotional videos for the venue and event for their website prior to the main event, as well as cut the live feed from the on site truck at the award show to upload online.

4/18 – 8/18

Lead Assistant Editor Darkness on the road

Film (Feature-length) Details
4/18 – 8/18

Recut previous edit, organize VFX for delivery to VFX House

6/17 – 3/18

Post Producer Life Hacks for Kids: On the Road (Season 1)

Universal Kids — TV — DreamworksTV in asssociation with AwesomenessTV Details
6/17 – 3/18

Successfully shepherded and delivered DreamWorks TV’s first half hour cable show to Universal Kids. Hired Editors, gave notes, helped story edit dailies with editors (no story editor hired by Producer), consistently provided successful efficiency solutions to accommodate abrupt schedule changes, contracted and coordinated Color and Sound for online and mixing, organized and negotiated legal agreement with Music Client, as well as oversaw all employment and post payment processes.

3/16 – 3/18

Post Production Supervisor (DreamworksTV) DreamworksTV

YouTube — Digital — DreamworksTV Details
3/16 – 3/18

Oversaw, organized, coordinated and facilitated the post production process for a rotating but consistent roster of 15 - 25 shows. Remade Editorial pipeline from an unorganized, late delivery prone, missing media plagued system into a robust and professional post department that can handle the post requirements of 15 - 25 concurrent Live Action and Animated shows. Brought two year deficit of episode media archiving from 5% of our total library to 98%. Increased efficiency of editors with successful technology campaign for faster computers that resulted in +90% reduction of render times which in turn increased episode production and allowed for more shows to be created. Formatted delivery protocols that resulted in complete reduction of incorrect or incomplete cuts going live. Managed scheduling, billing, and hiring of new editors. Oversaw, coordinated and successfully completed the on boarding and launch of DreamWorks TV’s Amazon Prime OTT Channel. Volunteered as one of two Moving Ambassadors for DTV and guided our companies physical transition into a new building along with acting as Awesomeness Television’s liason for the entire ATV Post Production department to coordinate the technological move of post production.

Unions

  • IATSE Local 700 Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG)

Recos

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Education

Class of '12

Occidental College

Film Major, Russian Minor

Skills

  • Avid
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Adobe Premiere
  • PC
  • Mac
  • Isis
  • Unity
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Audition
  • Troubleshooting
  • Speedgrade
  • AVID Pro Tools
  • networked systems