"Into everything, dive deep."
The Bona Fides
writing
story structure & story consulting services
curricula
newsletters
magazines
hundreds of website pages
6 novels (unpublished)
photography
Headshots, publicity, and résumé photos for over 1200 performers
Hundreds of portraits
Dozens of events
Architecture
Art direction
videography
Writing, producing, directing, shooting, editing, sound, graphics, colour, finishing, delivery
Lighting & Grip
Field recording & sound
DOP
studio production & voice work
Produced hundreds of radio commercials
Produced over 200 one-hour news magazine shows
Voiced International, National, Regional, Local radio, television, corporate, film, Internet, cartoon characters, accents (2 Signature awards)
voiced dozens of corporate videos, documentaries, short films
sound design & mixing for 2 episodes of Canadian Rockies Series
live production
sound technician, crew, mixed sound for over 400 performances
stage management
logistics & design
producer, camera, edit, sound, mixing & mastering, "After Hours at the Commodore" YouTube music series (2024)
performance, film & television
Actor, ACTRA member (past)
Over 20 featured extra and background roles
Various roles in numerous short films, including lead roles
Regional and national commercials
performance, theatre
Actor, CAEA member (past)
5 major productions, 2 in leading roles
broadcasting
built 2 radio stations
11 years on-air, radio, all dayparts, including news
directed 3 television commercials
4 seasons with CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival Broadcast crew
various crew positions, television
public speaking
Competent Communicator status, Toastmasters International
Represented District 42 at the Western Canada finals for 2013 World Speech Competition
hundreds of hours of classroom lecturing
teaching
English grammar
Broadcast newswriting
Audio Production
Social media
Workshops
IT
Infrastructure & admin (servers, network, support, systems)
Data storage systems, bare metal and virtual NAS, cloud, backup, archiving, cataloging, WIKIS
Built Request Tracker bare-metal server, ran 720 consecutive days, solved over 2000 tickets in 2 years
ERP upgrade for $100M company
Websites, Wordpress, Elementor, DIVI and others
"In time, life will take everything from us.
But it cannot take the things that we've done."
-Dan Kern