Motion Picture Space

BRIDGES MANAGEMENT & CREATIVITY
- Filmmaker with 30-yearsexperience for film, television, theme park and theater.
- Managed art departments up to 100 people on time-constrained projects, directing budgets over $2M

MAINSTREAM MEDIA PROJECTS
- Doublexposure: Dr. Del
- Paramount: Glee, Fox Television
- Universal / Touchstone: Ghost Whisperer [CBS]
- Paramount: Vanilla Sky
- Warner Bros: JFK, My Fellow Americans, Murder in the First
- Lifetime: State of Mind
- Columbia Pictures: So I Married An Axe-Murderer
- 20th Century-Fox: My Cousin Vinny
- Morgan Creek: White Sands
- Disney: Rocketman, Tom & Huck
- Turner Television: The Hunley, The Day Lincoln Was Shot [TNT]

PROVEN SKILLSET
- Creativity Management
- Straddles business and creative corporate commerce
- Creates powerful, visual metaphor
- Keeps up-to-date in technological skills

- Project Management
- Driven by a sharp sense of priority, organizing ability and attention to detail
- Creates project plans and adheres to timeline & budgetary restrictions with disciplined follow through
- Manages job specifications and quality control in office and with on-location sub-contractors
- Staffs teams with highly-skilled, cutting-edge, creative/business talent
- Insures highest quality standards for final product
- Builds long-term, mutually satisfying interactions for continued business

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Published author: The Art Direction Handbook for Film and Television, 2nd edition for Focal Press-Elsevier, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc., August 2014.
- Led many $.5 to $2+M projects meeting strict requirements for capital, labor and cost justification
- Established efficient and cost-effective departmental processes for upper management & production staff
- Ensured product compliance with OSHA standards, meeting operational safety and quality guidelines
- Supervised work nationally and internationally. Recently: 20th C. Fox World, Malaysia and Universal Studios Singapore.

DIGITAL SKILLS
- SketchUp Pro, Adobe CS, and Microsoft Office Suite

TEACHING
- Santa Monica College: Academy of Entertainment Technology: “Production Design for TV & Film”
- American Intercontinental University: “Visualization for Media”

RECOGNITION
- Nominee, 1999 Art Director’s Guild Award for Best One-Camera Episodic TV design: The Hunley
- Nominee, 2010 Art Director’s Guild Award for Best One-Camera Episodic TV design: Glee