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About The Author...

Since 1981, I’ve done a little bit of everything in broadcast video production:

Camera Operator, Director, Producer, Scriptwriter, Editor, Lighting Director, VCR Field

Operator, Audio Mixer, Grip, Tele-prompter Operator, Video Assist Operator, Dolly

Operator, Grip Truck/Van Driver, and Voice-Over Talent.

My career began in April 1981, when I graduated with honors, from the Music

Business Institute in Atlanta. I returned to MBI as a part time Class Projects music video

instructor from March 1984 to February 1985. I taught students how to produce, direct,

shoot, and edit broadcast-quality music videos on 3/4” broadcast videotape. (MBI was

purchased by the Art Institutes Of Atlanta. MBI was founded in 1979 by Mert Paul...

thanks Mert.)

Career Highlights

MTV music videos -

(1) “Storm Inside My Head” by Fortnox - Epic Records. Camera Operator and Associate

Producer, for Group 7 Productions, 1983. Fortnox later changed their name to Bombay.

(2) “Rumble Tonight” by Bombay, MTV Basement Tapes winner, April 14, 1985.

Producer, Director, Scriptwriter, Co-editor. (There’s more about the show below.)

* 8 television commercials for Warner Brothers-Elektra-Atlantic Records - WEA Atlanta,

1984-86.

* Camera Operator for NBC Sports, Behind The Scenes, 1996 Summer Olympics. July 18

- August 5, Atlanta GA.

* Hand-held Camera Operator for the NFL’s Super Bowl Channel, on the SportSouth

cable network, January 27-30, 1994. Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta.

* SuperStation WTBS, 1990-93. Freelance Camera Operator for WCW - World

Championship Wrestling.

* WATL-TV, Fox 36 Atlanta, 1993. Freelance studio Camera Operator for La Toya

Jackson Step Up Workout home video.

* For Video Tape Associates, Atlanta. Freelance Camera Operator for A Current Affair

(interview), and Sound Mixer for an Aerosmith-Geffen Records TV commercial shoot,

April 1988.

* Freelance Camera Operator for Henderson/Crowe Productions Atlanta - TV station

sales promos, taped in Hollywood CA (April 1984) with the late actor Vincent Price, for