About Me
I have been a video editor as far back as I can remember. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of using a rented VHS camera to create dirty stop-motion videos. Years later, as an adult, I continue searching for new ways to use old tools.
Born in Fargo, North Dakota, I moved to Chicago when I was fifteen and have been living here ever since. I have been working in media entertainment in the Midwest for over 10 years and working professionally in postproduction since 2007. After graduating high school, I earned my Bachelor's degree in Film and Video from Columbia College. Like most film students, I enrolled in my freshman year with the determined intent of becoming an award winning film director, but I very quickly found that editing was my true calling.
As the son of a librarian and a writer, my passion for telling stories has been a constant in my life, and I've always had an eye for how the pieces of a good narrative fit together. When it comes to visual media, film and video editing is the one place where you can truly see all of those disparate elements come together to become something so much greater than the sum of its parts. It is both the most exciting and most terrifying part of the production process. It is also the most rewarding.
My driving philosophy in telling a story comes down to a simple question: Do I believe it? Regardless of whether I'm working on a feature or short film, a TV commercial or a small corporate video, I am only satisfied when the picture in front of me has convinced me that it is real. Only when I've gotten a project to that point will I call it finished.
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