(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WWE; Broadcast Media industry)
August 2001 – Present (6 years 9 months)
Act as liaison between WWE television production and marketing departments and arenas worldwide to coordinate production logistics for every WWE televised live events—traveling to over 600 live events over the past 6 years.
Conduct site surveys to assess suitability of locations for production needs. Work with arena personnel on set, camera, and ring placement. Arrange for special needs as required by writers and production staff.
Manipulate ticket sales to ensure arena is sold correctly for television purposes.
Selected Event Achievements:
? Coordinated production details and floor seating for Wrestlemania 18-23 with a combined attendance of more than 240,000 and ticket sales of over $15 million, setting numerous arena attendance records.
? Synchronized production logistics for the first Raw and Smackdown broadcasts in England, Italy, Japan, and the first and only Pay-Per-View airing from Puerto Rico.
world wrestling entertainment
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
June 2001 – April 2007 (5 years 11 months)
Produce features for multiple WWE television programs. Write runsheets and scripts. Coordinate locations and talent. Produce on camera shoots. Field produce location shoots.
Produced WWE Fanatics Series- a monthly pay-per-view magazine show.
Produced from concept to broadcast, the first-ever “Behind-the- Scenes” of Monday Night Raw—a 9 minute feature that educated viewers on the steps involved in putting together a live wrestling program. To view this feature go to
http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/vms/raw/2007/november22-28/5921472?zone=raw_raw15 for part 1 or
http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/vms/raw/2007/november22-28/5908762?zone=raw_raw15 for part 2.
Directed and technical directed on-cameras for WWE Confidential. Used one hard camera, one jib camera and two video screens to produce visually stimulating on-cameras for this WWE magazine show.
Produced halftime highlight packages for broadcasts of a start-up football league, the XFL, including primetime weekly network, playoff, and championship coverage.
Produced opening for WWE Hall of Fame show, the first regularly scheduled program on WWE 24/7
For some other examples of my work with WWE please go to:
Superstar" Billy Graham Hall of Fame Video - http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/vms/halloffame/2007/may15-21/4727144?
"The Blackjacks" Hall of Fame Video - http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/vms/halloffame/2007/may15-21/4734040?
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
June 1998 – June 2001 (3 years 1 month)
Assisted producers with all facets of program development including writing scripts, editing tape, researching facts, and working with graphics department. Field produced location shoots as needed.
As floor manager, worked ringside at televised live events ensuring announcers had necessary technical equipment and appropriate sponsor verbiage for a weekly live television broadcast.
As stage manager, coordinated talent, production crews, writers and locations for pre-taped and backstage segments during live broadcasts.
Field produced television coverage of WWE day at Fort Hood military base. Used multiple production crews to document events including parade, concert, hospital visits and personal appearances at largest army base in the US.
WTVH-5 Syracuse New York
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
September 1997 – December 1997 ( 4 months)
? Involved in producing nightly sportscasts for local CBS affiliate. Logged games, wrote scripts and coordinated coverage of local sporting events.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
June 1997 – July 1997 ( 2 months)
Show Runner/Production Assistant
All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon
? Logged matches, helped to choose shots and wrote analyses for match highlights. Assisted in selection of best shots for production of network promos.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
May 1997 – July 1997 ( 3 months)
? Gained experience in the production of nightly sports highlights and call-in show. Wrote scripts, edited highlight packages, screened callers and accompanied reporters on remote shoots.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
March 1997 – April 1997 ( 2 months)
? Contributed creative ideas for a pilot, Sports Jerks, that was later picked up by Comedy Central. Coordinated shooting schedule, scheduled interviews and assisted in creative direction of pilot episode.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
May 1996 – August 1996 ( 4 months)
? Covered live events and press conferences. Conducted interviews. Produced practice sportscast for critique by station sports director
Education