Consultant for Robert Abboud RGA Labs   05/08—05/09

(President for The Village of Barrington Hills)-(Citizens For Robert Abboud Congressional)

Developed messaging and multi-media campaign tactics. Developed web exposure, and networking tactics. Raised

financial funds, through fundraising avenues.  Recommend and deploy an appropriate mix of communications strategies

and tactics with traditional and non-traditional in support of defined strategies and goals.

Provide advice on methods to optimize traditional and interactive campaigns. Develop and maintain excellent working

relationships with media vendors.  Coordinated and managed staff, developed events, and re-established

the strategic approaches for the development of GOTV, to meet expectations of changing demographics. Responsible

for accounting, payroll, incoming and out going invoicing, final audit reporting. Facilitate in-house training and policy

standards.

National Recruitment Director Progressive Future

Progressive Future Chicago, IL.                                                                                                  12/07—05/08

The recruitment function supported the company’s strategic business objectives of attracting, hiring and retaining the best available talent to maintain the company’s market-leading position by building and implementing a nationwide talent recruitment strategies, that produce a strong pipeline of qualified, diverse and best-in-class candidates in a cost effective manner. The role required both strategic and tactical leadership based on the need to evolve nationwide recruiting capabilities while concurrently delivering on existing recruitment programs.           

Plan, coordinate national ad campaign, write copy and implement targeted ad campaign.

Maintained Recruitment Department database- used Quick Base software for data analysis.

Generated and pursued job applicants, interviewed candidates, made job offers and placed nationwide.

Reported national numbers from CPO and Ongoing campaign to Co-directors, The Fund and PIRG.

Responsible for accounting, payroll, incoming and out going invoicing, final audit reporting.

Artist In Residence

Lake Highland Preparatory School            2001—2007

Teacher/Artist In Residence Media Arts Grades 9-12   JR/Varsity Girls Soccer Coach

Responsible for Multi-Media Curriculum.  Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash. Live camera studio producing

and editing along field shooting and editing. Mac platform with HD Camera, Crane and Steadi cam.

Developed projects for entry into film festivals. Designed entire 22-station lab and television studio to integrate live programming. Used Server, and devices for information dissemination. The interdisciplinary nature of the program allowed students to experience different approaches to film/video study: film/video and cultural differences, basic film/video vocabulary, film/video, history, film/video and social forces, film/video genres and platforms

film/video theories, film/video directors, and film aesthetics.

           Teaching Management: IT and Digital Technology

             Restructured classroom policy to reflect my classroom management style of consensus-building.

             Conversant  with the issues of digital technologies.

•      Apply motivational techniques, with creative visuals and sound.

•      Review and preview lesson content.

•      Makes material meaningful, and provides an environment in which students feel a part of class.

•      State objectives of lessons, communicate challenging expectations and encourage motivational thinking.

•      Demonstrate correct written and oral communication, clearly and articulate messages to a level of understanding that students can comprehend.

•      Elicit and respond to student questions, and provide structuring comments, to clarify tasks.

•      Present questions at the literal, inferential, and evaluative levels of comprehension.

•      Value and encourage student contributions, encourage dialogue with peers, demonstrate teamwork.

Abilities:

•      Set goals congruent with prescribed curriculum using self developed maps, lesson plans and syllabi.

•      Select appropriate long-range goals, plan activities, which reflect the scope and structure of the curriculum.

•      Plan complete use of technology to interface within designed teaching instructions.

•      Develop hands on learning, with computers and other technology.

•      Logically organize and reconstitute complex technical information.

•      Transform complex bodies of information into professionally designed, and engaging, instructional programs.

Producer:

Professional Experience Film, Television, Commercial Multi-Media                  1987—2008

Responsible for working in various capacities on numerous international and domestic productions in film, television, and print. Formats included documentary producing, field segment producing, commercials, music, videos, feature films, and television movies of the week and mini-series.

     As a producer I was the lynchpin in making the advertising agency’s creative solutions for advertisers into a reality.
I was responsible to liaise with advertisers (clients), their own creative department and production houses to oversee a creative brief from the idea to the screen or page. I have worked across a variety of media in television and radio, or print
and outdoors, and also extended to the Internet and even event management.

Scope of responsibilities include:

•      Involved in planning projects: including concept and development phases. Identifying potential shooting locations, promoting locations to city planners, executives and community. Serving as the liaison with local government and promoting positive public relations.

•      Negotiating contracts between major unions, IATSE, Teamsters, DGA, WGA, and SAG. Hiring of all staff   members and support teams.

•      Reviewing and drafting blueprints for design of construction, electrical schematics with lighting designers and keeping OSHA standards for safety standards.

•      Contracting with distributors, networks, and cable outlets.

Summary of Qualifications:

Career encompasses over 18 years experience in all aspects of production management, and supervision with responsibility, skills and competencies in the following areas.

•      Implementing cost-effective management and operational policies and procedures

•      Planning and administrating multi-million dollar budgets

•      Coordinating diverse and detailed aspects of daily operations

•      Negotiating and Administrating contracts

•      Devising presentations to effectively present concepts and ideas to key decision makers

•      Planning daily, weekly and monthly schedules to achieve maximum productivity and profitability

•      Hiring, training and supervising 150 crew personnel, and 60 plus on camera personnel with over 20 departments with departmental budgets and schedules

•      Troubleshooting actual and potential problem areas and implementing viable solutions

•      Completing projects on time and on schedule

Personal Strengths:

•      Excellent managerial, organizational and communication skills both oral and written

•      Conscientious, creative, thorough and reliable

•      Capacity to analyze situations, identify needs, and develop action plans

•      A results oriented, innovative, versatile, motivated individual responsive to challenges and dedicated to success

Awards:

•      Silver and Gold Addy Award: Advertising for the Arts, Electronic Media, Broadcast/Electronic Media

•      Telly Award: Best Music Video

•      Emmy Award Nominations : for Best Television Drama “In Broad Daylight”

•      Emmy Award Nominations:  for Best Television Drama, “In Broad Daylight”, “A Seduction in Travis County” “Trial”-miniseries, “Witness to the Execution”

 
Samples of work:

Professional Film Assignments

Producer and Second Unit Director

•            Pronto, May Day, Cries of Silence, Roosters, Soldiers of Fortune, Silent Rage, Broken Promises, War Cat, Alienator

Distribution and Marketing Producer:

•            Love Comes Quietly, Fabulous World of Jules Vern, Charm of Snake Valley, Tanya’s Island,

Silent film "The Peasant Woman”

Foreign films

            Three Wishes for Cinderella, Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor, Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny, Dr. Gore, Blood Freaks, Snow Queen, Little Mermaids Wish, Treasure Island, White Fang and Invasion of The Girl Snatchers.

Television Assignments-Sampling

"In Broad Daylight"            NBC-New World Pictures,             Line Producer

"A Seduction in Travis County"                  NBC New World Pictures,             Line Producer

"Trial", mini-series,             NBC-Tri Star Pictures                                       Line Producer

"The Unspoken Truth"            NBC Hearst Entertainment,             Production Supervisor

"Americas Most Wanted"             Fox 8 episodes,             Field Producer

"The Awful Truth"             Bravo, 4 episodes,             Field Producer

"Lives on Death Row"            BBC            Producer

"Rescue 911"            Fox, 7 episodes             Field Producer

"This Old House"             HGTV 3 episodes            Field Producer

Commercials- Samplings

Producer, Director 1^st Ad

CAREPLUS            DS Brooks 3 year campaign

Dealer Guys in Plaid            Zimmerman Associates

Viagra            Washington Square Productions

Busch Gardens            MJZ

Carlsberg Beer            Compulsive Pictures

Catholic Charities

AAA Travel Club            The End

Cable & Wireless             Push Agency

Sprint PCS            Pigeon Productions

Adams Golf            MJZ

Toyota Boats            FFT

Orlando Sentinel            Fry, Hammond, Barr

OMC            FFT

NASCAR Series            Cambell, Ewald

Burger King            Jon Francis

Florida Buick Dealers            Orbit Productions

Publix            Kelley Productions

NAHB             Chelsea Productions

Music Video-Sampling of Work:

Producer, Director 1^st Ad

Thalia,

Mandy Moore

Miami Sound Machine

Shalim            Estefan Enterprises

Liberty City,

Trick Daddy

Little Mo            Slip and Slide Records

Little Kim

Trina             Jive Records

Wycleff

Busta Rhymes,

P Diddy             Crazy Horse Productions

Lion King, Little Mermaid            Disney

Director/Producer

Pilot: Code of the Street

Director:

Internet Multi Media Production Pearson Publishing and Prentice Hall Publishing                                                 

For Domestic and International Distribution

                                                                                                                                                             2000

Pearson Publishing Development of scripts that translated the MBA series of books into scripted form that taught students through on-line material, and CD-Rom to interface with the two-year course. This was an internationally distributed work entitled  “Mastering Business Essentials” an interactive twelve-module CD that connects all the functional areas at an online entertainment company. Every module of Mastering Business allows students to view a key problem or decision in a format that closely mimics actual real-world scenarios.  Integrates the business curriculum—Shows how the various functional areas in business work together to resolve business problems.

 Bridges theory and practice—Starts with realistic business situations and then explains how theories apply to them.

Makes business interesting and interactive.  Videos engage students in dramatic business situations and corresponding interactive exercises get them to actively participate in the learning process.

Academically rigorous—All content in the series was created and reviewed by university professors and experts in interactive instructional design.

Self-paced design—Each of the 12 episodes takes 30-45 minutes of student time outside of class, leaving class time for discussing relevant topics in the Mastering Business Essentials situations.

Industry Teaching Experience

Guest Lecturer

University of Central Florida - Film Department

Valencia Community College - Film Department

Full Sail – Film Department

Awards:

•            Silver and Gold Addy Award: for Advertising for the Arts, Electronic Media,

               Broadcast/Electronic Media

•            Telly Award: for Best Music Video

•            Emmy Nominated for Best Television Drama, “In Broad Daylight”, “A Seduction in Travis County” “Trial”-miniseries, “Witness to the Execution”

Education:

Workshops attended:

UCLA Film and Television-Film Theory, Script Analysis, Intellectual Property Law

UCLA Film and Television-Scholars Workshop: Rare Soviet Films, Television Forum: American Television in the Kennedy Years

UCLA  Film and Television–Scholars Workshop: History as Fiction, Film as Truth: A cross disciplinary examination

Graduate of the US Army Intelligence Center and School

University of Central Florida: Certificate in Business Technology and Entrepreneurship

University of Central Florida: Internship into the Technology Incubator Program

BA  Social Services: Almeda University

MA Communications Almeda University

Education:

Graduate of the US Army Intelligence Center and School

University of Central Florida: Certification in Business Technology and Entrepreneurship

University of Central Florida: Accepted for one year Internship in the Technology Incubator Program

BA.  Social Services: Almeda University

MA: Communications Almeda University

Veteran U.S. Army, Holds International "B" License for Soccer, Coached JV and Varsity for Lake Highland, State Champions 2006,  Runner-up 2005, 2007 at LHPS.