About Me

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a creative. To me, being a creative was better than being President of the United States. I was always drawn to websites where you could make your own cartoons and Flash games, and I loved drawing my own comics and writing short stories.

I discovered the joy of film and video at my 10th birthday party, when my intrepid friends and I created a Star Wars parody called Bedtime Wars, complete with plastic lightsabers and episode titles like “The Nightmare Strikes Back.” My friend Jake even got smacked in the face during a take, and we kept on filming (with a good laugh at his expense) like true pros. HARDCORE!!!

When I was around 12 years old, I rediscovered this “ancient” footage and edited it together on an eMachine with Windows Movie Maker (RIP). Not an easy feat, lemme tell you. When screened for my friends, they loved it and were eager to make more. Of course, I obliged.

I continued filming/editing dinky little movies with friends (including a live-action Minecraft movie…eat your heart out, Jack Black) during sleepovers and birthday parties
throughout middle school. It was mostly nonsense, but we were just kids having fun.
Who cared?

Once high school rolled around and we became men, my friends and I decided to take our hobby to the next level: we made a YouTube channel, Two By Four Productions, which eventually became Average Channel in 2014. We focused on movie reviews and video game “Let’s Plays” at first, before turning our attention towards variety. We experimented with comedy skits, short films, a cooking show, a game show, fake movie trailers, etc., etc. We wanted to try everything.

Very early into our senior year of high school, my friend John was given 3 days of ISS (in-school suspension) for using a VPN in the computer lab. Although everyone else in the class was also using it, he was the only one punished. This injustice was the impetus and inspiration for our first “real” short film: ISS.

Filmed over the span of several months in late 2016, ISS was the hardest we’d ever worked on anything before. Putting the whole thing together was a major challenge with schoolwork competing for my attention, but we managed to pull it off by that December. I remember feeling very proud of it at the time, although I was still shocked to find that my classmates liked it, too! In fact, it was so successful (relatively speaking) that we decided to make a sequel that summer, our “last ride” of sorts before moving on after graduation.

From 2017 to 2021, I attended Georgia Southern University, majoring in “Multimedia & Film Production,” a real mouthful. Suffice it to say, I busted my ass on numerous projects and met a lot of wonderful, hardworking people to collaborate and goof off with. I joined the George-Anne Studio (as it was known at the time) in 2019, which really helped me to network and level up my editing/storytelling skills. They gave me the freedom to experiment with my style in a way my classes usually didn’t, and I am forever grateful for that experience.

2021 brought a wave of fresh, challenging experiences, including slaving away on my senior project (still proud of it!) and joining Wynn Productions, LLC as their video editing intern, my first professional experience. The grit and creativity I displayed paved the way for me getting not one but TWO part-time video editing positions after graduating college: And So We Go Productions and CarEdge (then known as YAA).

Balancing those two jobs while giving each the effort and attention they deserved was extremely draining (to say the least), but ended up paying dividends when I was offered a full-time position at CarEdge, one I still hold today. Those experiences taught me more than college ever did (or could) about time management, editing efficiently, and not wasting a single cut.
Hell, I’m still learning and evolving with the times.

Jesus, don’t we all?