● Voice performer for commercials, audiobooks, e-learning, narration, video games and smartphone apps.
● Work in home studio and various Vancouver studios for a range of clients.
● Home studio equipped with soundproof, anechoic, acoustically treated VocalBooth™ Silver Series recording booth, Neumann U87ai, Sennheiser MKH 416 and Shure SM7dB microphones, Universal Audio Apollo Twin and Solo interfaces, MacBook Pro, Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, Adobe Audition, Garageband, Source-Connect 4.
● Research, conceive, report, shoot, produce and edit video stories on a wide range of subjects (news, entertainment, features, sports) for national newswire service.
● Edit video shot by reporters throughout the organization.
● Material published by every major newspaper, broadcast outlet and online portal.
● Research, write and produce articles, stories, profiles, reviews, columns, books, segments, TV news packages, radio newscasts, movie and television production EPKs, video news releases, DVD extra feature packages and television newscasts.
● Print clients include Time, Newsweek, Saturday Night, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, Time Out, Business In Vancouver, The Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail and National Post.
● Broadcast clients include Global Television News, CBC radio and television news, CBC News Network, Entertainment Tonight (US), Force Four Productions (The Shopping Bags), Road To Rockstar: Supernova, Lifetime Television Network, Warner Bros., New Line and Spike TV.
● Online clients include CBC Arts Online and NextMonet.com.
● Researched and wrote one third (55,000 words) of Gold Rush, a book of profiles of mining companies and executives.
● Media trainer with Jeff Ansell & Associates.
Writer/Producer
Freelance
● Communications specialist for internationally known and respected environmental NGO.
● Research, write, light, shoot, edit and produce video, including news releases, b-roll, how-to, humorous material, EPKs, trailers, web video.
● Write, record, edit and produce audio podcasts and radio features and PSAs airing nationally.
● Write, edit, design, post and update web material, including video, audio, blog entries and web pages.
● Sequence, produce and author DVDs.
● Field media inquiries and questions on a wide variety of issues and angles.
● Hire and manage sub-contractors and volunteers.
Media Producer
David Suzuki Foundation
2007-2009
Communications Specialist
David Suzuki Foundation
2006-2007
● Communications specialist for the climate change team at internationally known and respected environmental NGO.
● Research, write and edit speeches, news releases, book, magazine and website content, brochures, annual report copy, newsletters, marketing collateral and advertising copy.
● Research, write, edit and post web content, including text, audio and video.
● Devise and implement strategy and logistics for short and long campaigns, including national month-long 41-stop tour.
● Field media inquiries and answer questions on a wide variety of issues and angles.
● Media training.
Editor-In-Chief
Toronto Business
Journal
2001-2002
● Responsible for all aspects of producing weekly business journal in Canada's biggest city; average edition size 36 pages.
● Supervise, train and develop staff and freelance contributors.
● Research and write stories, editorials, cutlines and headlines.
● Page design and layout.
● Write, edit, post and update web content.
● Conceive, pitch and assign stories.
Writer/Producer
Report On Business Television
2000-2001
● Wrote and produced 12 or more live top-and-bottom-of-the-hour newscasts daily for national cable business channel.
● Wrote and produced daily 60-minute business wrap-up newscast.
● Story research, selection and writing.
● Newscast lineup.
● Working with researchers, producers, on-camera talent, field and studio camera personnel and video editors.
● Anchored and wrote two to six hours live television news per day for all-news cable channel.
● Interviewed guests live four times per hour.
● Conceived, pitched, researched, wrote and produced tape packages and live shots.
● Worked with producers, writers and researchers, studio and field camera crews, live truck crews and video editors.
● Researched, booked, hosted and co-produced live call-in show.
● Responsible for all aspects of covering media for weekly trade publication serving the advertising industry.
● Supervise, train and develop freelance contributors.
● Research and write stories, editorials, cutlines and headlines.
● Page design and layout.
● Conceive, pitch and assign stories.
● Conceived and coordinated special sections.
● Award-winning columnist.
Media Editor
Marketing
Magazine
1996-1998
● Wrote, produced and coordinated resources for national radio and cable news channel newscasts; supervised live broadcasts in control room.
● Story research, selection and writing.
● Newscast lineup.
● Working with researchers, producers, on-camera talent, field and studio camera personnel, editors.
Writer/Editor
CBC News Network,
CBC Radio News
1993-1995
● Prepared and presented nightly live and tape package; duties include research, interviewing, writing, producing, supervising shooting and editing, live shots for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship Toronto affiliate.
● Conceived, pitched, researched, wrote and produced and coordinated special sections.
● Supervised shooting and editing.
● Worked with studio and field cameras, remote trucks and crews, handled location logistics and production demands.
● Wrote and produced 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. newscasts for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s flagship affiliate.
● Wrote and produced noon, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 11:00 p.m. newscasts as well as week-in-review newscast and prime-time news updates for Global Television network.
● Research, scheduling, newscast lineup.
● Assigned and scheduled reporters, crews and feeds.
Writer/Producer
CBC Toronto 1988-1990
Global Television 1986-1988
