My Mindset
I really relish being in the thick-of-things, taking on many stimulating, urgent projects and responsibilities, especially when I'm at liberty to just go for it, to set the course towards energizing, challenging goals.
Having been at the helm in a wide range of 'live', deadline-intensive, happily all-consuming activities, from video-and-web-creation, to staging Festivals, tapping into battle-tested, ‘heat-of-the-action' quick-thinking, enjoying camarderie-boosting teamwork, with people depending on me, I love that atmosphere – and I always welcome the next challenge round-the-corner.
I also have a healthy, down-to-earth take on things – having lived all over, it would be absurd for me not to have it.
So now, with so much captivating, innovative content, and the head-shaking kind, resonating in browsers and videos, my chosen unorthodox course enables me to tune in-and-out of all of that, pretty fluidly.
With my upbeat, free-spirited, down-to-earth approach, I love taking on, head-on, fresh challenges whatever the setting.
Experience /
Skills
- Founder-Manager track-record
- Directing/ producing track-record
- Festival Technical Director/ Stage Manager
- HTML/ CSS/ JavaScript/ jQuery/ React/ Vue/ Bootstrap/ GitHub/ Heroku
- Ruby-on-Rails/ MVC paradigm/ database migrations/ user-access/ user-payments/ caching/ RSpec/ ActionCable/ ActiveJob
- Fluid, impactful pace and content through editing with multiple 'Adobe' and 'Apple' tools
- Good instincts with many cameras/ mics/ lights, for live to staged shoots
- 'Big-picture' + long-term strategizing
Work + Life Snapshot
Through the full-steam-ahead challenges, thrills and laughs, notably as a Founder-Manager, and in my work overall, I've amassed a good medley of life-experiences. My video-and-coding, festival-staging, jazz hub, variety of mangerial roles, impactful content-creation, and whatever else, add up to me having a pretty unique work-profile.
The major highlight of my career was my co-creation, and then heart-pumping solo-running of my London Video Prod Startup. I was whole-heartedly committed to it, and it stands out as a very special opportunity, full of great team-camarderie, for us to create varied, impactful, and purposeful video-content – striking the right balance between resounding 'revenue-projects', and 'mission-statement-projects'.
To that and everything else I give and gave my all, with some middle-of-the-night, or aftermath, head-shaking grins.
With my meshed main roles, as founder-manager, web developer, and videographer, I feel like I've carved out a sound, resourceful, modern work-identity – with which many energizing aims are within reach. My visual, impactful instincts, respect for team-creativity, focus on the nitty-gritty, 'bird's eye-view' planning, in short, my mish-mash of instincts and know-how, adds up to my pretty unique profile-patchwork.
I feel naturally connected to many places all at once, as I have happily been immersed in a few 'happening' cities.
All in all, I've thoroughly enjoyed the highs, and the roller-coasters, from one gripping place to another: notably Johannesburg, London, Paris, New York, and Berlin, all those vivid, amusing, absurd, gritty, basically engrossing city-dives, full of thrills and grins.
Some Project Themes
Just a snapshot overview: from news-waves, History ‘now’, mind-soaring movies, conversations about cultural shebangs, heart-pumping live-performances and life-affirming, fact-based stories, to Jazz lives; from up-close interviews, tender, invaluable candor, absurd, hilarious stances, people taking a hearty stand, to rapid offbeat montages on traditions and causes... And much more.
