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My first appreciation and experience in media came in the form of television, and it is the largest, most creative and fulfilling medium in which I work.

Not to sound like too much of a techno geek, but I first found my interest in television in high school during a mass communications class. From there, I knew I television was the field I would be heading into. What I didn't know however, would be the different mediums I would have the opportunity to work in.

What I like about my television experience is that I am able to become a 'jack-of-all-trades' kind of guy. As you will see in my television portfolio, I have a diverse reel of television projects – documentary, live series, informative, educational, artistic/music video, and advertising. In most of these projects, I have served as either a director, photographer, and editor. In others, I have served as a writer, set designer and lighting designer.

From the first day of college, I found a job at the Minnesota State University-Moorhead Television Production Center as production assistant. At the time, I didn't know the importance, luck and benefit this lowly work-study position would provide. Within a couple of years at MSUM, I was able to move up on the ladder and get to work on some of the most interesting, high-profile, broadcast television projects. The pinnacle came in the form of televising music concerts with Minnesota State University-Moorhead's Music Industry Program. At that point in time, the program was a thriving, state-of-the-art music program. Titles such as You Say You Want a Revolution, A Tribute to Pink Floyd, and Scary Monsters of Rock are just a few of the twelve concert projects we produced for broadcast on public television on in a five-year span.

The experience at MSUM paved the way to my position at University of Minnesota, Morris Media Services Department were I develop a wide-range of television projects. In 2000, we produced the critically acclaimed Minnesota Rivers and Fields, a 13-part documentary series on the history of the Minnesota River watershed. Also, Media Services produces Prairie Yard and Garden, a regional horticultural series and is the largest-viewed television series of the entire University of Minnesota system. In 2006, I was part of the production team that produced Meth in the Heartland: A Community's Response. In 2007 I directed, shot and edited Echoes of Cry of the Marsh, an emmy nominated documentary on wetland restoration.

In addition to broadcast television, I work on many educational, marketing and informational video projects for distribution on DVD and streaming on the internet.

All of the examples in my online portfolio can be viewed by downloading the free players for QuickTime Streaming, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player. My portfolio is also available by request on DVD.