What an incredible week of celebrating skiing and the capability to able to host an event like this in the warmest recorded winter in human history. As the Marketing Director for the American Birkebeiner Ski Foundation, this video was produced to recap the past 50 years, share the excitement and accomplishment of the week, and finally help raise donations for a $10.2M campaign. This video helped the organization reach that goal.

LiveX is an industry leader in remote broadcast, live streaming and studio production services. In this video I fully produced, I unbox the latest lighting gear in partnership with Litepanels.

The Bay Lakes Council is one of the premiere regional organizations in Scouts BSA (formerly Boy Scouts of America). The COVID-19 pandemic affected this organization particularly hard. Without children in school, Scouting’s main recruiting source was gone. The organization needed a strong Fall Recruitment Campaign to make up for an entire year’s loss of numbers. The results are two :30 spots that aired via Spectrum ad buy throughout the mid-West and on YouTube pre-roll. The ads focus on two main drivers of the Scouting program: family bonds and character development.

The Bay Lakes Council is one of the premiere regional organizations in Scouts BSA (formerly Boy Scouts of America). They own four unique camp properties that they needed to showcase though quick pace, engaging videos that could be included in email content, social media, and feature on their website. The result are four videos (one example shown here) featuring the various attractions of each camp.

The Foxy Paddler Party Boat takes up to 22 passengers on 2 hour tours of downtown Green Bay on the Foxy River. They needed a video that showed the fun times that will be had aboard, while also informing potential customers how it all works.

From this one shoot, I was able to also create short form ads for platforms like Instagram and Facebook.

A collection of works put together in 2021 to highlight some key projects.

What shapes do you see when looking down on a freshly frozen lake from ≈100ft? I couldn't stop filming this unreal beauty. Didn't do much editing for this video. Just wanted to let nature speak for itself.

When the mountains form a sea of color…

Spent a lot of time in the Adirondack Mountains in 2020. Autumn was certainly no exception. Thanks to DJI drones, was able to capture some of its immaculate beauty.

In the late 1940's and early 1950's polka was the music dominating the airwaves both on radio and the newest technology at the time: television. One of the first live television programs in Green Bay, Wisconsin's history was a polka variety show featuring the group Cousin Fuzzy and his Cousins.

One of the last surviving members of the band is Agnes Benz, aka "Cousin Aggie." She was interviewed in 2011 as the beginning of a large documentary on Cousin Fuzzy. Unfortunately, due to a myriad of circumstances, that documentary was never produced and both the footage that was collected and Anges' interview sat on a hard drive for years.

Thanks to quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, this project was produced, not as the full Cousin Fuzzy story, but as a proof of concept. It is the wish of the producer to do more videos like this one, featuring every member of the Cousin Fuzzy band and other polka bands from the era. The opportunity to hear from musicians who lived during the 'age of polka' is greatly diminishing. These stories should be captures while they can still be heard from the people who lived them.

Spent a lot of time outdoors in 2020. This reel focuses on beauty of nature I simply couldn’t stop capturing. Then transitions to some highlight media productions I worked on in the past that brought me to where I am today.