Summary

A hard-working filmmaker who takes initiative, thinks ahead and hustles for every opportunity. I look to learn and grow with every set I am brought onto.

Credits

3/21 – 6/21

Assistant (THE CHI S. 4)

Staff Position — Twentieth Century Fox Television
3/21 – 6/21
10/20 – 1/21

Accounting Clerk (Ordinary Joe (pilot))

Staff Position — Twentieth Century Fox
10/20 – 1/21
3/20 – 3/20

Location Assistant No One Gets Out Alive

Netflix — Film (Feature-length) — NOGOA Limited Details
3/20 – 3/20

Worked as a Location Assistant for the Cleveland portion of filming.

10/19 – 2/20

Office Production Assistant Station Eleven (Season 1)

HBO Max — TV — Paramount Pictures Details
10/19 – 2/20

Day to day administrative duties to keep the office active and functional. Created shooting sides for set each day. Helped with watermarking and hard copy distribution for certain documents via Scenechronize. Distributed the football.

9/19 – 9/19

Set Production Assistant Half Brothers

Film (Feature-length) — Rider Productions Details
9/19 – 9/19

Supporting and traveling with the crew and communicating and preparing actors/photo doubles.

8/19 – 8/19

Set Production Assistant (Additional) Batwoman (Season 1)

The CW — TV Details
8/19 – 8/19

Performing lockups, being attentive to crew members, shuttling extras to and from basecamp.

8/19 – 8/19

Stage Manager Pokemon World Championships

Pokemon — Live/Special Event — Paperlyte Details
8/19 – 8/19

Stage Manager of the Video Game Stage for the 2019 World Championships in Washington DC. Tasks included prepping the stage, wiring/building the box and ensuring the back of house is getting feed, facilitating communication between my Director and other stage members, retrieving contestants and prepping them for gameplay.

7/19 – 7/19

First Assistant Director The Right Swipe (Season 1)

Vimeo — Digital — Minnie Productions, LLC Details
7/19 – 7/19

1st AD in charge of preparing and executing a shooting schedule to cover 6 pages in 12 hours. Tasks included facilitating conversation between the director and different department heads, working with talent and keeping the crew safe and supported.

Media

  • Waterfall by Carleton Koldyke

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Recos

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Education

Class of '18

Columbia College Chicago

BA: Cinema Arts and Sciences

My Gear

  • Zoom H6 Digital Audio Recorder
  • Canon 70D
  • Canon 50mm Lens
  • Manfrotto Tripod
  • Photo Lights
  • Camera Lens 85mm
  • Canon 18-135mm
  • Lavalier Lapel Microphone
  • 8mm Fish Eye Lens
  • bi-color LED
  • Zoom H1 Digital Audio Recorder
  • Olympus MJUii

Skills

  • Adobe Audition
  • Final Cut X
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Scenechronize
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Celtx
  • iMovie
  • Movie Magic Scheduling
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Adobe Story
  • Adobe Lightroom