Summary

Because the whole is always greater than the sum of its parts, that is why I edit.

Credits

12/15 – 12/16

Assistant Editor (Avid) Atlanta Plastic (Season 2)

Lifetime — TV — Intuitive Entertainment
12/15 – 12/16
10/15 – 10/16

Assistant Editor (Avid) The Rap Game (Season 1)

Lifetime — TV — Intuitive Entertainment
10/15 – 10/16
4/15 – 8/15

Assistant Editor (Avid) Atlanta Plastic (Season 1)

Lifetime — TV — Intuitive Entertainment
4/15 – 8/15
2/15 – 4/15

Assistant Editor (Avid) BeautyLicious

HLN — TV — Intuitive Entertainment
2/15 – 4/15
10/14 – 10/14

Assistant Editor Built to Survive

Discovery — TV — Renegade 83 Details
10/14 – 10/14

Multi-grouped footage from varied cameras (XDCam, GoPro, 5D). Cut acting reels for development.

9/14 – 10/14

Assistant Editor The Feed - Thanksgiving Special (Season 1)

FYI — TV — Giant Pirates Entertainment Details
9/14 – 10/14

Imported and transcoded footage and graphics. Uprezed, exported and posted cuts. Synced and grouped footage.

6/14 – 6/14

Assistant Editor (FCP) Nintendo at E3

Internet — Live/Special Event — Special Order Inc. Details
6/14 – 6/14

Managed media cards and ingested media onto the network server. Prepared video and audio assets, grouped footage, pulled selects, converted and posted videos. Communicated carefully with entire crew to increase efficiency of post-production workflow in a fast-paced environment.

9/13 – 5/14

Editor (Avid)

Staff Position — Chapman University - Dodge College of Film and Media Arts Details
9/13 – 5/14

Edited film. Responsible for DIT on set; managed all media (Sony F65), transcoded in DaVinci Resolve, synced and organized footage. Created credits.

Orgs

  • Chapman University
  • Whittier College

Media

Recos

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Education

Class of '14

Chapman University

Master's degree/Film Production/Editing
Class of '08

Whittier College

Bachelors/English, Art

My Gear

  • Editing system

Skills

  • AVID Media Composer
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Video Editing
  • Adobe Premiere
  • organization
  • Final Cut Pro 7
  • Script Sync
  • Visual Effects
  • Logging
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe Media Encoder
  • Compressor
  • Syncing
  • Sound Editing
  • Strong Communication Skills
  • Detail Oriented
  • AVID Pro Tools
  • Multigrouping
  • Avid Media Composer 7
  • transcoding/upresing/conforming