Work

I’ve been a digital media creator since 2009.  I work with the Adobe Suite for most things. My skills include writing, research, data analysis, scripting and storyboarding, A/V editing, livestream production, marketing and web development. I’m skilled with AI prompting for content creation and research. From 2023 – 2024 most of my work has been with The Soil Food Web School via The Chophouse.

In late 2024, The Chophouse started production on The Deep Bed Impact, a documentary about Tiyeni, an NGO operating in Malawi, Africa that has helped more than 30,000 small holder farmers feed their families with Deep Bed Farming. I developed and managed the crowdfund including web dev and social media, AI assisted scripting, and AI generated voice-over for the project.

Ashley Terry Films and The Chophouse

Ashley and I have been working together since 2017. We formed Uphill Media together and produced a lot of content for progressive organizations from 2017 – 2021. Ash has 20 years of professional videography and production experience behind him. He’s my mentor and goto motion graphics wizard. Our skills complement each other.

I built Ash’s new website  and one for his business, The Chophouse. I work as a contractor at The Chophouse and am also available for hire as a freelancer. 

The Deep Bed Impact 

The crowdfund research and outreach connected us with Faith Mussa, a Malawi musician and activist with world wide recognition. We’re in talks with Faith and Universal Music Group to use his song, Waiting (SONDR Remix) for the documentary. He is also a farmer and knows of Tiyeni. He’s willing to help us promote the film in social media and possibly be a brand activist for Tiyeni. 

Documentaries are a marathon…  As part of a long term strategy I developed EndFoodPoverty.org as a credible source about efforts to end food poverty in Africa that also promotes Tiyeni’s Deep Bed Farming as a successful method that should be expanded. The content also draws attention to the disastrous effects of industrial farming in Africa.I’ve worked with AI to draft content faster. I’m a writer, and there’s a craft to writing an in-depth prompt for AI to generate the first draft of an article. Research is also enhanced and yields results faster than working alone.

Below: Featured image for an article about the 40th anniversary of “Do They Know It’s Christmas” and a reality check on the current food poverty crisis in Africa. Read the article.

KORC 105.9 LPFM Corvallis, Oregon

In early 2019 Uphill Media was offered the chance to run a low power FM radio station in Corvallis, Oregon.  The station was owned by Veterans For Peace, but they hadn’t been able to get it on air. I convinced the UHM board to buy the station with the promise that I’d handle the technical.

With the help of some incredible local volunteers wrangling the antenna and other hardware, I set up the programming and web presence from La Honda, California. In the first 2 years of operations I was the GM, created the majority of the art for shows, built and managed the website, station programming, licensing, and DJ’s.

In 2021 Uphill Media dissolved and we handed KORC to the non-profit, Community Airwaves and new GM, Dan Crall. Today KORC FM is a huge success thanks to the hard work of local volunteers like Dan Crall, Jennifer Cassidy and Ashley Terry. I still help with station engineering, licensing, and I host the show, “Goose Bumps” featuring live jams from bands like Goose, Dogs in a Pile, and classic live shows like Germany’s Beat Club. The show airs Friday @ 8pm Pacific with a re-run Monday at 4am.

Some of the media I created for KORC.

Cover art for the show, “Sugar-Free Radio with “Dj Nails”

Sloth Mountain Studios

I’ve done a variety of work for Brian Sagrafena at Sloth Mountain including YouTube management, Google suite admin, live video production, and web development. Here’s some of the videos I’ve done for SMS.

Gary Gates & Friends – Carry Your Dreams

This was a special project for San Mateo musican and local legend, Gary Gates. We had lots of concert footage but he wanted something different. So we shot some new stuff  on Coggins Ranch in La Honda (got in trouble shooting it) and grabbed some B-roll. The result is a colab with Gary’s direction and my editing. 

Postman Jack & The Special Deliveries – Out in the Wild

Promo for Postman Jack & The Special Deliveries who are recording their debut album at Sloth Mountain. I did the camera work, interview, editing and GFX.

Sloth Mountain Studios – Trailer #1

YouTube trailer for Sloth Mountain Studios. I shot and conducted the interview with Brian, produced and edited the video.