September 2019 - Current

• Team expert on video content, accessibility, and creation.
• Provide creative solutions, strategy, and ideas for video projects that tie to college campaign goals.
• Collaborate with and advise marketing and communications teams on best practices and video integration for social media, television, and web.
• Work with account managers, executive level leadership, department heads, and other high-level stakeholders to develop, produce, shoot, and edit high-quality video content for public and internal marketing/communications.
• Create video/animation and other specialty design elements for email, web, mobile, social media, and on-campus interactive and static displays within the college branding guidelines.
• Design and prepare high quality digital and video materials to meet the needs of various clients within the college.
• Manage content for 130+ campus digital sign displays, including interactive elements, oversize video walls, and general info displays.

May 2004 - September 2019 (During Direct Employment Gaps)

Worked with clients to produce various media including video (television programs and ads, training/instructional, DVD's, music videos), print (marketing and packaging materials), websites, and social media campaigns.

January 2017 - September 2019

Loren the GM is an on-line gaming subscription service providing high quality custom tabletop role-playing game experiences. Combines technology, music, sound effects, and a passion for storytelling, to provide deeply immersive and creatively satisfying gaming sessions for clients.

• Scheduling, coordinating, and running daily social gaming events for diverse groups of people (including various ages, backgrounds, nationalities, and global locations).
• Facilitate an inviting and friendly environment for all involved.
• Group management/leadership including maintaining a smooth flow of events at meetings/sessions through skilled. organization, motivation of individuals, and keeping the group on task and focused.
• Conflict resolution for various interpersonal situations.
• Creative storytelling and improvisational thinking.
• Business marketing and finance management.

May 2015 - November 2016

• Managed the Multimedia Team (employees and contractors).
• Met with clients to determine production needs.
• Developed, wrote, and produced high-quality original video content for clients and internal use.
• Managed studio, equipment, and department operations, including a 24-hour television channel in the local market, and implemented online streaming of television broadcast.
• Worked with digital team to develop a hyper-local web portal and social media strategy.
• Worked on multiple marketing projects for clients, including video development for web and social, social media strategy, company voice development and brand consistency, social advertising and online contests, and analytics measurement to gauge success.

December 2014 - May 2015

• Designed production studio space and oversaw purchase of equipment.
• Developed a marketing campaign for SeymourTV that included a brand style sheet, two new websites, videos, social media strategy, and future marketing and content strategy.
• Developed marketing campaign for SCHOOLinSITES including a custom website build, new promotional videos, print promotions, and a future marketing strategy.
• Created plans for career tech training for students through SeymourTV.
• Developed content strategy for SeymourTV programming.

April 2013 - December 2014

• Created original video content for weekly services, special events, and associated ministries.
• Oversaw post-production process for all major events and special projects.
• Built and managed a volunteer team of videographers, story artists, and editors to assist in creating original content.
• Contributed to development of experience Life media, a digital Christian resource media company created by Bent Tree.
• Managed video integration for website, social media, and mobile app.
• Helped implement robust remote internet streaming system.
• Video producer for live productions, including Sunday services and special events.

2012 - 2014

War In Heaven, War On Earth is a full length documentary feature film that explores the converging experiences of a nation at war and the formation of the Seventh-dayAdventist Church, a religious group who found themselves wrestling with the questions of conscientious objection, the specter of slavery, and the myriad social and political issues of the time. As the Civil War engulfed America, the issues of faith and duty to country clashed as conflict threatened to divide both nation and church.

August 2004 - March 2009

Oversaw post-production for a production company and television network thatoperated a digital television channel in 54 television markets as part of ION’s digital programming lineup, and provided content for 35 foreign affiliates.

• Produced or edited 29 Telly award winning projects.
• Produced/wrote/edited original programming and advertising for national broadcast.
• Coordinated a team of editors for projects.
• Oversaw quality control of all original broadcast content.
• Authored retail DVD products.
• Implemented and oversaw video project archiving strategy.
• Advised on website development and managed integration of web assets and video content from television channel.
• Assisted in developing original social media pages.
• Designed website elements and digital content, and created layouts and tracking for email newsletters.
• Performed various crew duties on productions.
• Led editing team through video format change from standard definition to high definition.
• Led editing team through digitization and cataloguing of large DAM video stock nature image catalogue.
• Led editing team through the expansion of programming into online streaming, IPTV, and video on demand systems.

August 2001 - May 2004

• Worked with Blackboard CMS to create digital classroom content.
• Produced advertising videos for web and DVD.
• Produced streaming and on-demand video content for online courses.
• Developed online interactive video learning programs.
• Assisted faculty with integrating course material into CMS.
• Provided technical support for students and faculty for e-learning system.

August 1998 - July 2000

• Created website.
• Designed print and web marketing materials.
• Planned live events to attract new students.
• Created a marketing campaign that increased enrollment by over 10%.
• Worked with program directors to design lighting and audio for live productions.
• Operated audio/video/lighting equipment for live events.