The Road I'm Traveling

Career Strings

  Directing

Having big ideas is great. Knowing how to communicate big ideas in a way that allows your support team to do their best work while breathing life into a singular vision is Directing. Bold and original creative thinking reigns supreme here, but solid technical understanding of what you're asking from your crew and being able to prioritize and adapt based on that understanding so that everyone can accomplish their workloads in a structured way is just as important.

  Producing

Money, money, money money. It's not all about the money, but, well, sometimes it's all about the money. Knowing what it will cost to take a big idea and drive it to the finish line within a predetermined time-frame is Producing. If ever there was a place for micro-management this is it, but the only way to be a good micro-manager is to have a firm grasp of the creative concepts behind the big ideas and understand the technical means by which those big ideas will be layered into life.

  Visual FX

Computers, mathematics, complicated problem solving and monsters. Lots and lots of monsters. But it's also a high pressure environment that demands an intense dedication to cutting edge and cutting costs. Being a techie guru with a few cool ideas is a big part of it, but successfully managing teams of people spread around the world and holding each of those people accountable on a frame-by-frame and pixel-by-pixel basis is the difference between a finished product and a work-in-progress.

  Artist / Technician

Having a focused mission with a very clear and narrow goal allows me to slip into a meditative state where I'm simply clicking and creating. Each software is like another plane of existence that I travel to. I can get lost in Adobe Land or Lightwave World for hours and days and weeks at a time. But it takes a real artist to have enough self-management and respect for the rest of the team to pull yourself back into reality and meet your deadlines while delivering work that fits in with the overall aesthetic of the given project.

  E-commerce

From the first time I read about how powerful the internet had been in driving the success of 'The Blair Witch Project', my mind was opened to and intrigued by this new channel for reaching people. Just like making a movie or writing a song, creating a concise and unique vision for an online brand and putting together a user-friendly experience that captivates and motivates a target audience to act fulfills the part of me that constantly seeks to reach and inspire people.

  Marketing

This isn't at the bottom of the list because it's the lowest priority. It's here at the bottom, because it serves as the foundation for everything else that I've ever done professionally. Whether it be marketing myself, my ideas, one of my movie projects or the many companies and/or products I've been involved with helping to promote through the internet, coming up with a concept and strategy for getting people excited about something they didn't previously know about or perhaps had once known about but since forgotten is and has been an essential element of my career from the beginning.