About Me

As a skilled and highly motivated visual communicator, who appreciates good story telling and creativity in all areas, i seek first hand engagement in a production or post-production environment.

Profile:
• highly organized and efficient, i thrive in stressful, high-paced and challenging environments
• eight years of broadcasting experience
• high interpersonal skills, with the ability to provide and take direction and the knack to forge great relationships with vendors, creatives and associates
• keen eye and a generous appetite for sharp lines, elegant curves and everything design
• passion for entertaining, television and making a difference through my creative work
• great sense of humor

Film&video experience:

Miami international film festival - 2011
- programmer

Party mamas - tv show - 2010/2011
- editor

Scales of balance - short film super 16 - 2010
- writer/director/editor

Tlc/we! - designing spaces - tv show - 2009/2010
- writer/field producer/editor

Grace - short film - 2010
- 1st ad

The treasure - short film - 2010
- director/editor

The working stiff - short film - 2010
- cinematographer

Pedritto - film - 2010
- 1st ad

Letters from james - film - 2009
- 1st ad

Lab rats - film - 2009
- director/editor

It's a - film - 2009
- 1st ad

Exits & entrances - short film - 2009
- 1st ad

Cuban candy - independent film - 2009
- line producer

Fkcc - broadcasting and television- 2009
- final cut pro instructor

Slice tv - outlaw in-laws - reality tv show - 2007 to 2009
- producer/editor

Hgtv - big city broker - reality tv show - 2006-2007
- producer

Slice tv - uprooted - reality tv show - 2006-2007
- writer/field producer

T5e productions - you are not welcome - documentary - 2007
- director/camera/editor

Cbc radio canada - marketplace - tv show - 2006/2008
- field director/editor

Pomoron productions - a lost page in american music documentary -2005/2006
-writer/director/editor

Cbc radio canada - all access pass tv series- 2005
- field director

T5e productions - the bravest people - documentary - 2005
- director/editor

Nbc - boomer essiason show - 2004
- director/editor

Bird nest productions ny- 2003/2005
- post production supervisor

Showcase- paradise falls tv series- 2003
- associate producer

Fim productions- built - independent film - 2003
- production manager

Keating media - little earthquakes- 2003
- 1st ad

Front tv- 2002 to 2003
- associate producer

48 media- music videos - 2002
- producer

Toronto film festival group - 2001
- marketing associate

Special skills:
• experience with film, hd, dv and beta formats
• editing experience with avid media composer and final cut pro hd
• muliti camera directing/control room
• authoring with dvd studio pro
• sound design and editing with pro tools
• microsoft office software – word, powerpoint, excel, access,quickbooks
• mac and pc proficient
• familiar with adobe: photoshop, illustrator and after effects
• competent user of microsoft outlook and various internet searchengines
• fluent english, german, russian and bulgarian, intermediate french and spanish
• valid driver’s licence

Education and awards:
• mfa – miami international university - film and broadcasting
• post production - ryerson university
• filmmaking diploma– nyu
• honours ba - university of toronto – marketing and employment relations
• dr. Stanley ho scholarship hong kong university –1999 special topics in international management & chinese culture and society
• millennium scholarship – year 2000 – academic achievement

Stellar references & demo reel available upon request

I have been in the industry since 2002.