Awards

  • Webby Awards – Science: (Space.com Site Team)  2014, 2013, 2012, 2010
  • Codie Award – Starry Night Astronomy Software and Video (Team / Producer) 2004 
  • Parents’ Choice – Gold Award Starry Night Astronomy Software and Video (Team) 2003 
  • Broadcast Design Award (Bronze) – SciFi Channel Interstitials Package (Producer / Director) 1997 
  • Chicago Film Festival TV (3 Silver / 1 Bronze) – SciFi Channel Original Programs (Supervising Producer)  1997 
  • NY Festivals Gold – Inside Space - USA Networks / SciFi Channel (Writer / Producer)  1996 
  • Telly Awards Silver – Inside Space - USA Networks / SciFi Channel (Supervising Producer)  1996, 1995


​CV (short-form)

  • STARSONG MEDIA Inc. – EDGEWATER, NJ            1984 – Present
  • Owner
Privately held production company making non-fiction media

  • Purch Group / TechMediaNetwork – NYC, NY            2009 – 2016
  • Executive Producer  / Visual Content Team Leader
Create, produce, budget, manage and monetize multi-platform science and technology content.  Implement company strategies for premium, programmatic, lead-generation and e-commerce revenue.  Develop YouTube channels for six Purch Group brands (including Space.com's VideoFromSpace (now 1.2M+ subscribers)) and on-site video player portals.  Supervise staff and freelance video producer/editors, photographers, graphics artists, web designers and writers in NY and UT locations.  Write and present news stories, reviews, reference pages, Op-Ed commentary, blog posts and marketing materials.  Shoot, edit and publish original video.  Curate and add value to outside source video.  Spot and surface potential virality in video and article content.  Negotiate contracts with vendors and partners.  Secure inbound licensing.  Structure and impose metadata, SEO and link conventions on outbound video.  Design, construct and supervise technical facilities for video, audio and graphics production.  Identify and research business development opportunities for the CEO and Exec Team.  Collaborate on marketing presentations.  Report to the Chief Content Officer.

  • Space.com / LiveScience – NYC, NY  (Acquired by Purch)            2000 – 2016
  • Writer / Presenter / Executive Producer
Write, direct, edit and produce online videos, articles, stories, image-galleries and interactive rich media executions.  Review telescopes, binoculars, software, entertainment, "infotainment" and other consumer science-lifestyle products.  Appear on national and international live television and radio news programs as guest expert on space science and aerospace industry in order to grow audience.  Present on-camera and narrate videos.  Create, host and author long-form rich media and DVD/BRD. Develop Starry Night and Deep Space Explorer astronomy software products.  Record and mix audio.  Score, play and produce original music and sound design.  Development consultant to SPACE.com prior to its launch, becoming an early hire, reporting to the CEO.

  • USA NETWORKS / Syfy Channel – NYC, NY            1992 – 2000
  • SUPERVISING PRODUCER  (Original Programs Group)
Showrunner for weekly series (186 episodes), long-form specials, interstitial programs and live broadcast events.  Writer-Director and Post-Production Supervisor.  Managed show-unit staffs, production crews and editorial personnel.  Reported to the SVP Original Programs.

​Service
  • Secure World Foundation Near Earth Object Risk Communications Group – 2011
  • Denver Museum of Nature & Science Space Odyssey Advisory Committee – 2001
  • St. Louis Science Center Aerospace Advisory Committee – 2008
  • Civil Air Patrol Aerospace Education Senior – 1997-2010
  • Space Frontier Foundation Advisory Group – 1990 - 2008​

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​Education
  • New York Institute of Technology – NYC, NY           
  • Graduate Studies + BFA (magna cum laude)
Communications & Media / Electronic Journalism / Television / Film