Leo Sopicki

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About me

I've always been telling stories.

I skipped 5th grade, mostly based on my verbal and writing skills. I impressed a teacher with a story of how someday I would go on safari in Africa, which, eventually, I did. In high school I was on the journalism staff and contributed to the school literary journal.

I put myself through college frying chicken, working on an assembly line, loading boxcars and selling parking passes. I majored in history and minored in demonstrations, writing newsletters and flyers and designing posters.

After college, the Army sent me to the JFK Center at Ft. Bragg where I learned to be a Psychological Operations officer - a propagandist - an official Army story teller. Back in civilian life, I parlayed the PSYOP skills into managing a political campaign. That was followed by a blur of Public Information Officer, campaign manager, speech writer, marketing and public relations jobs.

Mixed in there somewhere I worked as a security guard, a character at an amusement park, and a door-to-door cable TV salesman. Then came computer programming which is a kind of story telling, too. I was always the computer guy who could write the documentation and publish the newsletter.

The computer years are over and it's time to focus on telling stories again. When you hire me, you're hiring experience, discipline and a mature perspective.

I'm ready to tell your story.
Additional information:
Writer, photographer, graphic artist and technologist. I focus my creative efforts on celebrating the American virtues of self-reliance, individual initiative, volunteerism, tolerance and a healthy suspicion of power and authority.

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Secondary Job Title	Producer
Job Titles	Video Editor, Screenwriter, Writer, Producer, Photographer
Years in industry	6+ years