Summary

Producer with a 20+ year history of creating and producing unscripted stories. Specialties: broadcast TV, remote, and brands. Development to pre-production, shoot, direct, and edit. Clients: Discovery, Food, HGTV, Logo, History, CBS, MTV, ABC, VH1, OWN

Credits

1/14 – Current

Executive Producer (EP) K Rip Films and Original Productions

Various — Corporate Details
1/14 – Current

OWNER: K-Rip Films Original Productions and Consulting. Produce original videos, presentations and shows for individual and corporate SF Bay Area clients. Clients include: Salesforce, The Marin Bar Association, The Hivery, University of Sydney, Signal Financial Advisors, Pixie Lane, Maple Rock Capital, Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, NewCo Shift Dialogs and various private clients

12/23 – 12/23

Field Producer Adobe - Educational Series

Adobe — Corporate — Makematic, Northern Ireland Details
12/23 – 12/23

Field produce educational series featuring Adobe executives.

5/23 – 5/23

Talent Producer What She Said: Women in Culinary

Live event for W Hotels — Live/Special Event — Freelance Client Details
5/23 – 5/23

Talent producer for W live event featuring Kathy Fang, Imana and other San Francisco food CEOs.

3/20 – 12/22

Creator How to Zoom Like a TV Producer

Linkedin — Corporate — How to Zoom Like a TV Producer Details
3/20 – 12/22

Create and develop concept to help new Zoom users function at a professional level during the pandemic shift to remote comms. Develop business strategy and personnel remote communications, conduct company-wide training, coach business leaders 1:1 to improve their Zoom presentation. Clients include: Salesforce, The Marin Bar Association, The Hivery, University of Sydney, Signal Financial Advisors, Town of Tiburon, Pixie Lane and private clients. Karen featured in Wired Magazine and Marin Independent Journal.

9/20 – 11/20

Executive Producer (EP) Maple Rock Capital Partners

Internal — Corporate — Maple Rock Capital Partners Details
9/20 – 11/20

Produce and edit remote annual investor meeting video in lieu of in-person event for large hedge fund. Video generated headlines in the Financial Post, Bloomberg, and global financial news distribution.

3/20 – 3/20

Producer/Shooter The Hivery with Jill Biden

YouTube — Digital — The Hivery Details
3/20 – 3/20

Shoot and edit live event with Dr. Jill Biden and women’s empowerment leader, Grace Kraaijvanger.

8/16 – 11/16

Executive Producer (EP) Nasdaq Entreprenurial Center Anniversary Video

YouTube — Digital — NASDAQ Details
8/16 – 11/16

Developed, produced and delivered short form explainer video featuring entrepreneurs, VPs and Vice Chairman of Nasdaq, Bruce Aust.

2/16 – 10/16

Producer NewCo Shift Dialogs

YouTube — Corporate — NewCo Details
2/16 – 10/16

Develop and supervise creation and delivery of high profile digital studio series featuring tech disruptors and CEOs of Airbnb, Microsoft, Box, Medium, Kodak and others.

Unions

  • Producers Guild of America (PGA)

Recos

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Education

British Columbia Institute of Technology

Broadcast Journalism grad

UCLA School of Continuing Studies

NYU School of Professional Studies

Skills

  • Post Production
  • Producing
  • Reality
  • Editing
  • Director
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Producer
  • Writing
  • Field Producer
  • Supervising Producer
  • Budgeting
  • Docuseries
  • Deliverables
  • Unscripted
  • executive producer
  • PreProduction
  • Talk Shows
  • Talent Coaching
  • Interviewer