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About
I am a highly dedicated and skilled professional with a diverse background in production, videography, and information technology. Throughout my career, I have gained valuable experience working in various roles within the industry. From my current position as a Worship Production Team Lead at Sugar Creek Baptist Church to previous roles in Worship Production, Videography, and even Martial Arts Instruction, my passion for excellence and innovation has driven me to deliver outstanding results in each of these positions. As a graduate of Ridge Point High School and a current student at Houston Christian University, I have acquired a strong foundation in Computer Information Systems and Information Technology. I am certified in CompTIA IT Fundamentals+, Dante Level 1 and 2, and Waves SoundGrid 101. My diverse skill set includes analytics, drone videography, broadcasting, and more, making me a versatile and valuable addition to any team.
Work Experience
I recently accepted the position of Technical Team Lead at our Richmond / Rosenberg campus. I am now tasked with leading the Sunday morning production team, and in addition, I strive to lead employees and volunteers to growth and knowledge while ensuring our services look, sound, and feel great for the congregation. In addition, I work tightly with our other campuses to create the best experience through the maintenance of existing systems and modernization. For the online ministry, I took on the creation of a dashboard to display where our online audience watches from around the world while tracking attendance for each service.
Skills: Project Management · Lighting Design · Audio Mixing · Content Management · Operational Planning · Dashboards · Maintenance and Repair
I previously worked at Sugar Creek Baptist Church in the Stream and Broadcast division in Production. My roles included stream innovation, increasing viewer interaction, and ensuring the broadcast looks and feels great as we attempt to reach more congregants around the world.
Skills: Communications · Broadcasting · Engagement
I previously worked at the Sugar Creek Baptist Church Missouri City campus, tasked as a part-time worker for Worship Production. My roles included preparation for Sunday morning services as well as running those services through lighting and audio. During this time and now, I worked on many side projects for our Creative Communications team as well as other installation or repair projects. Now a Multisite Production Associate, I was tasked with the maintenance and repair of our varying systems across campuses for best reliability.
Skills: Live Event Production · Maintenance and Repair · Creative Communications · Audio Mixing · Lighting · Lighting Design
Hired in May of 2023, I had the honor of working at Sewell Audi Sugar Land as a full-time summer associate. As I was working, it was impossible to not see how much Sewell loves their customers and employees, from the fun things that management did for the associates, to the customers being so excited to get their cars back so excited because they knew what Sewell did was in the best interest for them. During my working hours, I was primarily tasked as a Customer Service Associate as well as Valet. However, I worked in other capacities as often I would help the Loan Car Department, and Sales Department, as well as other positions in regard to company success and ultimately putting the customers as the top priority.
Skills: Asset Management · Loan Car · Customer Service · Decision-Making · Valet Parking
While attending Houston Baptist University, I worked alongside the Innovation and Strategic Marketing department to record engaging video content to be used for marketing on various platforms (Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and others). This role continued to grow my collaboration skills as I would record the content that would be used to inform, immerse, and tell a story about the university. This role had its fair share of importance as the content would be used to market the University to those currently attending and those looking to attend Houston Christian University.
Skills: Teamwork · Drone Videography · Cinematography · Videography
During my time at Tiger Rock Martial Arts in Sugar Land, I was tasked with the role of Assistant Instructor; responsibilities included assisting/teaching in classes, providing support to students, and helping at the front desk to ensure that current customers or future customers would receive the best experience on or off the mat. During my time working I earned my Second Degree Level Two Black Belt.
Skills: Martial Arts Black Belt · Classroom Instruction · Assistant Teaching · Customer Service · Leadership · Team Building
I was contracted by Sugar Creek Baptist Church to run lighting over a weekend event hosted by the church, for underprivileged students. This ultimately gave those students a chance to experience a summer camp style event that included Worship, Games, Camp Food, Baptisms and more.
Skills: Audio Mixing · Lighting · Lighting Design · Special Events
Education
Houston Christian University is where I have been attending in the College of Science and Engineering (COSE) department learning Information Systems. Unique to HCU, many hands-on projects were employed for us to take advantage of in our learning, A few of these include: Smart Factory (Uses different sensors to control pumps, fans, lights, etc.), a Security Camera System (Detects motion, takes an image, and emails said image with a timestamp to specified recipients) and lastly Network Administration (Building a local network and administering it for best security and device compatibility)
Skills: Project Management · Python (Programming Language) · Network Administration · Penetration Testing · Linux
As a first-year experience student at the James Reese Career and Technical Center, me and my classmates were the first students to take part in the new learning experience offered by Fort Bend Independent School District. During my time at the Reese Center, I gained more knowledge of computer maintenance as well as networks. However, being first-year students, my classmates and I assisted in shaping the future of the programs offered.
Skills: Computer Maintenance · Networks · Blended Learning · Computer Hardware
During my time at Ridge Point High School, I chose my main focus of study to be Computer Science. During my four years, I took the following courses: Fundamentals of Computer Science, Computer Science 1 Pre-AP, Computer Science 2 AP, Mobile App Development Dual-Credit. In each of these classes, I gained better insights into the coding process as well as team collaboration as I worked with my classmates to create an app, program, or just achieve a common goal. Languages learned and utilized were Java and Swift.
Skills: Java (Programming Language) · Swift (Programming Language) · Coding Experience · Teamwork
Volunteering
Certifications
795b-15a9-2894-9768
WROI684
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