Summary

Detail-oriented and expeditious editor. Available for non-union and Local 700 union jobs. Expertise with Premiere, Avid Media Composer, and color correction.

Credits

11/20 – 11/21

Colorist Safer At Home: The Coronavirus Movie

Film (Feature-length) Details
11/20 – 11/21

Colorist and Online Editor

4/19 – 2/21

I/O Operator

Staff Position — Picture Shop Post
4/19 – 2/21
8/20 – 1/21

Producer (Avid Media Composer) Terezin - Children of the Holocaust

Film (Feature-length) Details
8/20 – 1/21

Editor, Post Production Manager, and Colorist in addition to producing the film.

1/19 – 5/20

Editor (Avid Media Composer) The Canyonlands

Freestyle Digital Media — Film (Feature-length) — Sadielands Productions Details
1/19 – 5/20

Editor and Post Production Manager, overseeing all post production decisions throughout.

5/16 – 4/19

Assistant Editor (Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, After Effects) E! News Daily

Eonline.com — Digital — E! Entertainment Television
5/16 – 4/19
3/16 – 4/16

Colorist (DaVinci Resolve 12)

Hashtag Lunchbag — Advertising — Independent Film
3/16 – 4/16
3/16 – 3/16

Visual Effects Editor (DaVinci Resolve, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro 7) 2016

Film (Feature-length) — Post Mango
3/16 – 3/16
1/16 – 2/16

Assistant Editor (Avid Media Composer, Davinci Resolve) Temple

Film (Feature-length) — Absurda Details
1/16 – 2/16

Generated dailies from all the raw footage and sound, and applied LUTs to each shot per the direction of the DP.

Unions

  • IATSE Local 700 Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG)

Orgs

  • Motion Picture Editor's Guild
  • NBCUniversal
  • Comcast
  • Universal
  • E! News
  • E! Online
  • November Project

Media

  • Corinne Olympios Celebrates National Napping Day | E! News

  • Kurt Nakanishi - Editor's Reel

Recos

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Education

Class of '14

Emerson College

Post Production/Visual Media Arts

My Gear

  • Compressor
  • DVD Studio Pro
  • Soundtrack Pro
  • Cinema Tools
  • Sorenson Squeeze
  • Acrobat 9 Pro
  • iMac (27" Late 2013 with 4gb of NIVIDIA GeForce Video Memory)
  • Redcine -X Pro

Skills

  • Producing
  • AVID Media Composer
  • Editing
  • storyboarding
  • Broadcast
  • Film
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Photography
  • Social Media
  • Video Editing
  • Writing
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Voice Acting
  • Camera Operator
  • Social Networking
  • Final Cut Studio
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Final Cut Pro 7
  • Lighting
  • Apple Motion
  • Graphic Design
  • Animation
  • Team Leadership
  • Insurance
  • Singing
  • Team Building
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • FileMaker
  • Audio
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Media Encoder
  • Customer Service
  • drawing
  • Facebook
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • People Skills
  • Mac OS X
  • OS X
  • Maya
  • Telecommunications
  • Windows 7
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Garageband
  • Heavy Equipment
  • Fetch
  • Group Work
  • CyberDuck
  • Windows 10
  • DaVinci Resolve 12
  • DSP BIOS
  • Avid Media Composer 7.0