SUMMARY

Over twenty years in production, Matt is a producer/editor/field director for an independent production company. Experienced and knowledgeable in commercial production, outdoor television production, project management, budgeting, broadcast, program scripting, technical directing, editing, graphic design and industrial studio broadcast equipment, long/short format programing, and live network feature production. Currently, Matt has over 256 logged and credited hours as a broadcast producer/editor.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

• Exceptional experience with audio/video acquisition and editing

• Strong expertise in non-linear and linear editing, offline and online production

• Experience with digital editing systems broadcast applications and general production

• Sound familiarity with graphic design

• Excellent skills in editing and digitizing raw footage

• Outstanding facility at working on multiple production assignments simultaneously

• Well faceted in all aspects of production from script to screen

• Extensive knowledge in media management for post production and efficient workflow

• Well rounded in customer and client relations and satisfaction

• Experience in Management of projects from hiring, crewing, and public relations

• Experience with FinalCut HD, Premiere, Final Cut X, Media Management, as well as Cloud and SAN (storage-area network) systems.

MEDIA MANAGEMENT/DIT

• Support the post production workflow associated with live broadcast events

• Supporting post production workflow of the edit of program series airing on national TV

• Ingesting, tagging, and logging media for archival purposes

• Maintaining a Media Asset Management system

• Transcoding content for play out

• Maintaining multiple hard drive arrays and SAN media storage systems

• Knowledgeable and proficient in CATDV

CLIENTS:    

    Spike- Bellator MMA, Velocity- Barrett Jackson, Pursuit – Winchester Archery,  Reaper Outdoors,  Discovery Channel – The Fish Guyz, Sportsmans Channel - Whitetail Explorer

BROADCAST PRODUCTION

• Over 20 years experience in television advertisement production

• Extensive experience in commercial advertisement for national and regional cable television

• Skills include sales, scripting, field production, editing, and airing

• Client relations and customer satisfaction

• Outsourcing and hiring

• Project development and delivery to networks

CLIENTS:

Speed – Corvette the American Dream, E! , Time Warner, Communicants Concepts INC, Matthew Thomas Agency, United States Postal Service, Pursuit – Winchester Archery, Reaper Outdoors, Sportsman Channel – Predator Quest, Outdoor Channel – The Season, Discovery Channel – The Fish Guyz, Sportsmans Channel - Whitetail Explorer

VIDEO EDITING                   

• Extensive experience in AVID, Adobe Studio, Final Cut 7, Final Cut 10 and Motion

• Editing and digitizing cross platform and multiple format media

• Graphic design utilizing Adobe Studio and Motion

• Knowledge in various formats such as web, nation broadcast, and social media

• Proficient in audio mixing at broadcasting standards

• Color correction/Slog

CLIENTS:

    E, MTV, MTV2, FS, Fox, Sunshine, Velocity, Spike, ESPN, ESPN2, Speed, Speed Vision, Outdoor Channel, Pursuit Network, Sportsman’s Channel, Golf Channel,  Nickelodeon, Disney, Universal, Monster Supercross, Discovery Channel, NASCAR

DIRECTING

• Director for numerous studio, mobile, live, and live to tape productions

• Programs produced for national, regional and local broadcast

• Program directing, management of studio/ENG-EFP crews

• Feature/Promo directing for long and short format in field

CLIENTS:

Speed – Corvette the American Dream, E! , Time Warner, Communicants Concepts INC

Matthew Thomas Agency , United States Postal Service, Pursuit – Winchester Archery, Reaper Outdoors, Sportsman Channel – Predator Quest, Outdoor Channel – The Season, Discovery Channel – The Fish Guyz