Click here for a list of some of the projects I’ve been involved with.

I have a background in journalism, television (public tv and cable) and non-broadcast video.

Journalism:
A range of skills that permeate many aspects of video production, as well as life: interviewing, writing, editing, questioning, accuracy, tack and respect.

Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Talk (Sixth grade, Seaford, Long Island) – all the class gossip, news, jokes and sightings that would fit on two typewritten pages, with fanciful layout and occasional hand-drawn illustrations.  Newsstand price “only
2 cents!”

Editor-in-Chief, Argus Magazine (University of Maryland) – inventive, provocative student feature magazine.  Also reporter and columnist for daily newspaper, The Diamondback.

Journalism major, business administration minor, and
tv and film courses, too.

Reporter/feature writer, The Paper (weekly culture,
arts & politics) and Extra (the Sunday magazine of
The News-American), Baltimore.

Editor/writer for magazine and newsletters for school services of WNVT, Northern Virginia Public TV.  I took advantage of the opportunities there and began writing dramatic instructional scripts, and then shifted into productions (see below).

Visual Experience:
When I was 11 years old, I traded with a friend a model airplane I built for his Kodak Brownie Starflash 127 film camera (large negatives, excellent fixed lens, gigantic flash).  Wow, creating great pictures was fun! And easy!

Director, Editor, Production Manager, WNVT-TV – Directed dozens of studio and remote shows, live and taped.  Including public affairs, concerts, auctions, instructional, dramatic.  As production manager, hired, scheduled and trained crew and volunteers;  managed productions.

New York interlude:  freelance shooting and writing (screenplays, one optioned).

Videographer, Producer, Director, Editor, Operations Director, Video Software Associates, Arlington, Virginia. 
VSA was a pioneer in interactive video using dramatic simulations.  Working with government, corporate and
military clients, I performed multiple functions, including shooting with our Betacam cameras, editing, and
producing and directing many, many shows, local and
afar. I also kept the books for the company.

And, since 1997 – Uptown Productions, where I
continue to direct, produce, edit, write and shoot
creatively and efficiently, working from my home office
in Washington, DC, my editing office in Arlington, at
clients’ facilities, or on location.

Click here for a list of some of the projects I’ve been involved with.