My Story

Years ago, I produced a TV commercial that had a tough problem. When I arrived at the soundstage I’d rented with a full cast and crew, I discovered we were locked out with no stage manager to let us in (they overslept and did not respond to my calls). We’d been in the studio the day before, staging our set and pre-lighting. But now we were dead in the water. Solution: I had a signed contract in my possession and a legal right to be on the premises. I noticed the hinges to the front door were accessible from the outside. I had a full complement of grips with tools to remove the doors, which would trigger the alarm. So, I called the alarm company providing security for the facility and told them my plan and for them NOT to call the police. They understood. The doors were removed, the alarm sounded, and the team was able to start work only fifteen minutes behind schedule vs. the hour-plus it took for the stage manager to finally show up.

Maybe it’s stories like that that drive my clients and teams to tell me I make the impossible possible.

Domestic and international. Massive and micro budgets. Complex logistics and bleeding-edge technology. Leading large multidiscipline teams and two-person film crews. Over the past twenty-plus years, I’ve done them all and loved every minute.

The depth and breadth of my story covers more than two decades working with names and brands like Disney, Pixar, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Beach Boys, EPCOT, Universal, Honda, and Mercedes-Benz.

This kid grew up in love with storytelling, immersed in comic books, film, television, baseball cards, and books like Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles and The Boys of Summer.

A year before graduating from Loyola Marymount’s film school, I was working in the entertainment industry as a lighting director for General Telephone’s industrial video division in Santa Monica. The career goal was a focus on cinematography, but I didn’t have the brawn to move those heavy electrical cables around. I had an aptitude for management and coordination and went to work managing logistics for MTV music videos for Oingo Boingo, the Stray Cats, and Rockwell.