Resume

Technical Director | University of Virginia Dept. of Drama and Virginia Theatre Festival (VTF) | Charlottesville, VA — 2022-Present

Institute best practices to ensure safe and respectful workplaces. Maintain detailed spending records and star within budgeted resources for UVA Drama and VTF. Attend departmental, Staff, Design, and production Meetings. Recruit and hire professional seasonal and student staff. Plan, supervise and or implement purchasing, scheduling, building, installing, striking and other duties related to production and performance. Support academic classes in design and technology. Maintain scenic inventory/storage. Produce two mainstage productions and dance concerts for the academic year and three fully realized productions for the summer season.

Assistant Technical Director | Theatre UCF | Orlando, Fl — 2021-2022

Instruct BFA/BA students on operating hand and power tools. Maintain build schedule with students on 3 Mainstage, 3 Black box, and 1 summer fest builds. Discuss music with Sound Staff. Operate CNC and Glowforge laser cutter. Create construction drawings and assist to Technical Director.

Assistant Technical Director | Orlando Shakes | Orlando, Fl — 2018-2021

Assist the Technical Director build and achieve designs on schedule. Create CAD drawings for main stage and Goldman productions. Run and maintain a shop keeping track of inventory and fixing tools. Employ storage solutions and source materials for productions.

Assistant Technical Director | Putnam Productions | Orlando, Fl  — 2017

Assist the technical director in achieving desired stage design. Edit video for LED screens using Adobe Premiere. The show took place at ClubMed in Port Saint Lucie where we put on a show for a conference. The show consisted of highlights from Grease and West Side Story. 

Warehouse Manager / Installer / Carpenter | Bungalow Scenic Studios | Orlando, Fl — 2014-2018

I began as a Scenic Carpenter building flats and CAD Drawn Projects according to clients needs. Was promoted to Installer where I worked with clients to install/strike corporate and themed scenery through supervising a group under tight deadlines. Promoted a third time to Warehouse Manager. Duties include: Scheduling employees according to workload, training, tracking inventory, shipping/recieving, collaboration with all departments to execute shows.  

Dac Art | Carpenter |Mobile,AL — 2010-2013

Executed decorative concrete mold frames for estate homes.