Experience

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  Owen May Legal Videography Services, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  • Greater Milwaukee & SE Wisconsin

  • Executive producer, Principal

    • Sep 1992 - Present
    • Greater Milwaukee & SE Wisconsin

    Video production for the legal profession, specializing in Day In The Life video for the catastrophically injured. Storytelling that matters. The process: ♦ Counsel submits a written case summary ♦ We conference call w/ counsel and plaintiff/plaintiff's family ♦ We schedule the shoot (typically less than a single day required, including location of accident/incident visuals)♦ Script is written and submitted for counsel's approval ♦ Final editingA production schedule of two weeks or less is doable -- though we suggest planning ahead for always-appreciated buffer time in the production schedule. ♦~♦~♦ For Wisconsin Lawyer Magazine, I wrote this primer on planning a Day In The Life video. Please cut and paste: http://www.wisbar.org/newspublications/wisconsinlawyer/pages/article.aspx?Volume=85&Issue=12&ArticleID=10530

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  WTMJ-TV Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  • Television news reporter

    • May 1988 - Mar 1994
    • Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    General assignment reporter with a focus on business and personal profile feature reporting.

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  New Hampshire Public Television

  • Durham, New Hampshire

  • Co-host/field producer: New Hampshire Journal, a newsmagazine

    • 1986 - 1987
    • Durham, New Hampshire

    My transition from radio to television news storytelling. A weekly news program featuring comprehensive coverage of New Hampshire public affairs. Our beat: The Granite State, border to border...its wonderful people, places and politics. Television documentary was the standard here, serving as excellent training for the faster pace of commercial television news work that would follow.

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  WRKO Boston - RKO General, Inc.

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Radio news anchor and reporter

    • 1980 - 1986
    • Greater Boston Area

    A most fulfilling employment experience -- and pinnacle of a broadcasting career. Great culture, great team, esteemed colleagues. Boston-based and State House-focused on politics...as uniquely practiced in the Bay State.

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  WBZ Boston

  • Boston, Massachusetts

  • Radio news anchor and reporter

    • Jan 1980 - Jun 1980
    • Boston, Massachusetts

    "Weekend Update" guy -- only for real -- on "The Spirit of New England" airwaves. At the time, arguably the premier broadcasting entity in the Boston market. My first exposure to major market airwaves as a news anchor. This position developed from freelance field correspondent reports I filed for WBZ during New Hampshire presidential primary campaigns.

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  WKBR Radio, Manchester, New Hampshire

  • WKBR Manchester, New Hampshire

  • Radio News Host, The News and Information Hour

    • Jun 1978 - Jun 1980
    • WKBR Manchester, New Hampshire

    Radio news anchor and reporter in the land of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. This opportunity, together with prior and subsequent news positions in New Hampshire and neighboring Vermont and Massachusetts, brought 1-on-1 encounters with would-be (and later, soon-to-be) U.S. Presidents, including: Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Edward Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale, George HW Bush, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and others. A memorable front row seat on history in the making, my reports and profiles aired coast-to-coast via the ABC and NBC Radio Networks.

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  WKVT Radio Brattleboro, Vermont

  • Southeastern Vermont & New Hampshire

  • News Director

    • Mar 1975 - 1978
    • Southeastern Vermont & New Hampshire

    Learned on-air radio essentials here -- working off a then-distinct New York City accent in the company of patient, talented colleagues. Nestled in the far southeast corner of Vermont in the Connecticut River Valley, Brattleboro, Vermont and neighboring Hinsdale, New Hampshire are pristine, storybook New England places with people and spirit to match.

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  City of New York, Department of Consumer Affairs

  • New York, NY, my home town

  • Licensing Investigator

    • Oct 1972 - Oct 1973
    • New York, NY, my home town

    Worked with the great...and not-so-great...in the Bess Myerson era at this consumer protection agency. Learned about inside politics in The Naked City -- two-faced as it can be. House of Cards before its time.

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  WABC Radio New York

  • New York, NY

  • Editorial Assistant

    • Sep 1971 - 1972
    • New York, NY

    A first exposure to writing for broadcast with best-in-the-business editors and newscasters -- the professionals of the WABC newsroom. For their superb example in wordcraft these years later, I can specialize in litigation video narrative that is persuasive and precise -- in stories of the injured that win hearts...and favorable outcomes.

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  The Peace Corps, Malaysia

  • Sarawak, Malaysia

  • Overseas volunteer teacher and curriculum coordinator

    • Mar 1969 - Aug 1971
    • Sarawak, Malaysia

    A youthful and mostly fearless exposure to the world beyond NYC. Learned a new language in new cultures: Malaysia/Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand. A simpler place, the world at that time...or so it seemed. Researched and authored a vocational training syllabus during this two-and-a-half years adventure journey across West Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo; produced and directed a weekly educational broadcast for Radio Malaysia. Return voyage to the United States included encounters in 1970's Sumatra, India, Iraq and Western Europe.In retrospect these years later, this total immersion overseas experience -- extending over 30 uninterrupted months in Southeast Asia -- brought a better appreciation of America and its merits through a prism of unforgettable far-off lands, people and cultures.~~Hey, lihat nona jauh,Rasa sayang sayang, hey!

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  Queens Distributing Agency, Inc.

  • Astoria, New York

  • Purveyor of The New York Times

    • Jan 1964 - Jan 1969
    • Astoria, New York

    In my college years, learned the value of hard physical work -- driving the big rigs in wholesale delivery of the nightly bulldog edition of a once great newspaper. Destinations: just about every "candy store" in the real-life New York City neighborhoods of Good Fellas, A Bronx Tale and Saturday Night Fever. For unchecked editorial language in its news pages, it is my opinion that The Gray Lady is not the newspaper of that era. But the spirit of that time will never die.

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  Kopp Animal Hospital

  • 25-64 Steinway Street, Astoria, NY

  • Veterinary Assistant

    • Jan 1960 - Jan 1967
    • 25-64 Steinway Street, Astoria, NY

    Noteworthy for Howard J. Kopp, VMD. "Doc". Like a second dad and a most important person in my life, Doc almost (just almost) saw his assistant accepted to the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell. May he rest in peace in the knowledge that everything I know about dogs and their expert care...came from him.