Profile

I work for Texas Video and Post (“TVP”), which is a filming and postproduction studio. We create TV commercials, corporate communication videos, and Internet pop-o-grams, essentially any type of moving media.

I’m a producer and account executive. As a producer, I create film and video content for clients. I produce a lot of music TV for record companies including TV commercials.

As an account executive, I identify who would like to work with us.

I work at the company’s studio and also out of my house. My clients are out of LA and New York and I live in Texas. This long distance relationship allows me to work part of the time from my home office.

TVP’s office is fabulous. It’s an office but it also has five editing bays, audio spaces, a studio with a green screen, and two 3D animation studios.

I work with music companies and major corporations. At TVP, I work with directors and audio, editing, animation people.

First, I check my email and look at my projects. I make sure everything is flowing correctly.

I also search the Internet for potential clients and opportunities. I then reach out to them by phone or email and let them know about our company and its services.

Organizational skills -- I have a lot of balls in the air. Communication skills, especially listening. Creative thinking.

Some days 9-5 others 8-10pm

I travel sometimes, mostly because I work with a lot of people in other states. Even if I have a lot of communications via email or over the phone, it doesn’t replace meeting face to face. I meet with all of my clients once or twice a year.

I also go where we are filming. I represent the client and make sure everything is going smoothly. I project manage the shoot.

I love the end product. I love getting what the client wants. For example, we filmed in the cancer department at Texas Children’s Hospital. We filmed children with cancer and their parents regarding what they were going through and how they were being treated by the hospital. It was so wonderful to see the end product, the beauty of the people, and how Texas Children’s Hospital was really helping them.

I love to watch the client watch the end product and feel proud of what they have commissioned. It’s a wonderful feeling.

I love the people and that I do something different every day. I work on a shrimp video and then an oil and gas video. I love the diversity of the people.

Sometimes, I don’t like prospecting because you need such a tough skin.

Making a difference in the lives of my clients by providing a product that makes them proud and creates their vision.

It worked backwards. I saw what I didn’t want rather than what I did. I saw a lot of people who got a lot of compensation for what they did but they hated it. I didn’t want that.

I saw people who didn’t give everything to what they had committed to and I didn’t want that either.

I wanted to achieve happiness and work in entertainment. When I showed up, I gave it my all.

Work with the people who want to work with you. Take care of the clients who are working with you!

Make them like it. Try to “sell” anything that the client doesn’t want or need.

Educate yourselves and work on what makes your heart sing.

The teenage years are the time to get information. You need to educate yourself, listen to different points of view, and then, when you get older and a little more formed, make an educated decision.

Media. Marketing. It is good to know brand strategy. Recording arts and sciences is also good.

Hiking. Helping with animal well being and abused children.

Music and the arts.

I try to model working where my heart is. I make our time count together.

I try to be present. When I’m here, I don’t check out on them. I truly engage with them and try to make my time with them meaningful.

I would have finished college. Even in the arts you need an education. As a young person I didn’t understand that I might want to change careers and not having a degree hasn’t served me.

When I was growing up I wanted to be an actress like many who grew up where I did. My father was a screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock. My father wrote Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Peyton Place.

I got in a really bad car accident. It was truly divine intervention. I was coming back from getting a third lead in a Walt Disney film. While I was recuperating, I was looking at a UCLA school manual and they had a course in recording arts and sciences concert production and promotion. I thought it would be a fun class to take. On a whim, I took the course.

The class was run by a famous concert promoter at the time. At the end of the class he took four students and had us help him put on Ted Nugent at the Forum. We helped run the show. I’d never had so much fun in my life. I had no idea that was a job. It ended up that I wanted to work in music.

For many, many years I couldn’t believe they were paying me because I loved it so much. I loved every minute of it.

To get my first job at a record company, I called a man every Thursday at 2:00 for two years and talked to his assistant. I asked them if they had a job for me and they said no. Two years later he answered the phone and asked, “Are you going to call me for the rest of your life?” I said, “Yes, Sir.” I was never impolite and I never talked on. He said, “Come in and I’ll talk to you about a job.”

I worked for him for a couple of years at A&R in acquisition of talent. I started at the bottom. I logged in the demo tapes and answered the phone. I listened to some of the tapes.

I moved up as a talent scout for Geffen Records. I went out and listened to bands and I reported to him whether they were worth talking to them further.

From there, I worked at a major label I.R.S Records in major record promotion, which is getting the record played on the radio and touring with the bands. I got the musicians’ interviews done, getting them in and out and setting everything up for their events.

I also worked for Island/Polygram Records. I was living in New York and I got moved to Texas. Then, seven years later, I got downsized. During that time I felt that music was transitioning to a place I wasn’t sure I wanted to go.

I started looking around on the Internet. I tried to see what jobs looked interesting. I got a job as an account executive at a postproduction company to work for advertising agencies. They saw my skill set in music. They wanted to move into music TV but they only had one small client. I developed the department and got new clients because I could speak their speak. I brought a myriad of companies to Texas from Los Angeles and New York and developed an entertainment section. I learned about corporate video and live event video.

I later joined TVP. I love what I do now. It is more appropriate for me at the stage of life where I am.

I wanted to take my entertainment background and work in the creation of the product.

Stuttering. I used to stutter quite often.