Production and Marketing
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Production and Marketing

VIDEO PRODUCER - MS GULF COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE
working with in the athletic department, and working particularly closely with the athletic director, I produced highlight videos for individual sports as well as the department overall. I worked very closely with student athletes, emphasizing their balance between sports, classroom, and their lives outside of the school.

DIRECTOR OF TELEVISION - MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC BROADCASTING
I led a revitalization of this moribund department within the statewide PBS affiliate. In this role, I was responsible for developing and overseeing the production all the new original offerings, from ongoing series to feature documentaries to onscreen promotional campaigns to web content. During my tenure, the department won Emmys, Webbys, and the Edward R Murrow Freedom Award. I was responsible for a staff of 25, departmental budgets, out-of-house content purchasing, broadcast scheduling, resource management, and all personnel decisions.

PRODUCER – LOVE MY PIT BULL featuring Cesar Milan - Prometheus Ent./NatGeo
I produced this upcoming documentary for NatGeo from pre-production through post. The documentary is a “comeback“ project for Cesar Milan and will be a high-pofile cable project when it airs in the spring of 2014. I dealt with research, outlining and writing; staffing; budgeting; planning and executing shoots; and story producing.

FIELD PRODUCER - PIT BULLS AND PAROLEES: 44 Blue/A&E
As a member of the production staff, I directed scenes, interviewed subjects and monitored storylines for this successful series

SUPERVISING PRODUCER - BILLY THE EXTERMINATOR: September Films/A&E I led the production of the most-watched season of this A&E hit series.

LOCAL SUPERVISING PRODUCER - SCAM CITY: Season 2 - ZigZag Prods (UK)/NatGeo Intl.
Worked with international production to locate scam artists willing to appear in this UK series. Planned storylines, wrote script, scheduled production of episode in New Orleans.

FIELD PRODUCER - SWAMP PAWN: Season 1 - Pilgrim Studios/CMT Helped start this new heartfelt and humorous series for CMT.

SUPERVISING PRODUCER – OFF LIMITS: Season 2 - Authentic Entertainment/Travel Channel
Sole producer in the field on this Travel Channel series about gaining access to dangerous or secretive engineering sites around the countryrecovery/combat illegal dog fighting...

PRODUCER / DIRECTOR / WRITER: BUILDING BLOCKS - SMW Pictures / Human Interest Films/PBS
Recipient of National Park Service Grant to develop, produce, and direct 60-minute documentary profiling cultural rehabilitation along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, post-Katrina.

PRODUCER – “JONATHAN BENDER vs. HURRICANE KATRINA” ESPN.com Produced ESPN’s feature, and accompanying short for ESPN.com, about a former NBA Player who is a leading figure in the rebuilding of New Orleans post-Katrina.