WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sept 2002 to Present

Instructor, Television Production Technology, Chattahoochee Technical College, Marietta, Georgia.

June 2001 to Sept 2002

Freelance Avid/Online Editor. Working on projects for Cingular, Morehouse College, Children's Miracle Network for the 5th straight year. "Golf Portfolio" for CNBC, AFLAC Cancer at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Alcohol & Drug Awareness Program for The Georgia Department of Public Safety. Great Museums Series for Echo Pictures and American Public Television (APT).

Sept 1994 to June 2001

Senior Editor, Brick House Editorial, formerly Peachtree Post. Avid Offline/Online & Digital Online Editor.
Clients: TBS, CNN, Cartoon Network, WCW, United Airlines, Salvation Army, CARE, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Children's Miracle Network, Weather Channel, Travel Channel, Coca-Cola, Jack Morton Productions, Fitzgerald & Co, Morehouse College. Editor, 13 part series "Bob Dotson's America" for the Travel Channel.

Jan 1989 to Sept 1994

Senior Editor, Alan Stecker Video, D2 Online Editor.
Clients: BASF, UPS, Sprint, MCI, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Coca-Cola, BellSouth, Delta Airlines, CNN, O'Connor-Burnham, Jack Morton Productions, Tucker, Wayne & Luckie.

April 1977 to Dec 1988

Staff Tape Editor NBC Atlanta News Bureau, including:
Senior Tape Editor/On Air Playback, NBC News Today Show Road Trips: Today Show Train Trip, the South America shows from Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, the SS Norway Cruise, the Five City America Tour and the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in 1988.
Technical Director for the Today Show and Meet the Press during the Ronald Reagan/Mikhail Gorbachev Geneva Summit.
Editor for correspondent Bob Dotson on two award winning series for the Today Show and NBC Nightly News, In Pursuit of the American Dream and Assignment America.
Editor, in Barbados for US/Grenada Invasion.
Editor, President Ronald Reagan's trip to Paris for G7 Economic Summit Editor
President Jimmy Carter's trips to South America and Guadeloupe for G7 Economic Summit.

Oct 1973 to April 1977

Electrician, NBC News Atlanta Bureau Staff Film Crew.
Lighting Director NBC Today Show - Barbara Walters/Anwar Sadat Interview.

Sept 1968 to Oct 1973

Stagehand with IATSE Local 51 in Houston, Texas working in lighting for Broadway Touring Shows, Houston Grand Opera, Theatre Under the Stars, Ice Capades. Master Electrician with Houston Ballet.

AWARDS:

Regional Emmy; 2 Cine Golden Eagle awards; Abekas Global Excellence Award; Eight silver and seven bronze Telly Awards; Best of Competition in Promotional and Award of Excellence in Educational/ Instructional category from the Broadcast Education Association, 2005; Best of Competition and Technical Merit Award in Promotional and Award of Excellence in Educational/ Instructional category from the Broadcast Education Association, 2006; Award of Excellence in the Commercial/PSA from the Broadcast Education Association, 2007; Nominated for a Regional Emmy 2007; Award of Excellence in the Mixed Catagory from the Broadcast Education Association, 2008; Inducted into the Southeast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle, 2009.

I have been a faculty member with the National Press Photographers Association's TV News Video Workshop in Oklahoma from 1986 to 1995 and a faculty member of the NPPA 1995 Airborne TV Seminar in Atlanta and New Orleans.
I have conducted News Editing Workshops for KPNX TV, Phoenix TV; KWGN TV, Denver; KHOU TV, Houston; WTLV TV, Jacksonville; WAGA TV, Atlanta; WSB TV, Atlanta; WCCO TV, Minneapolis; KSDK TV, St. Louis; Defense Information School at Ft. Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis; Dakota Press Photographers Association; Kentucky Press Photographers Association.

I have been a faculty member of the Blue Jeans Workshop at the University of Georgia School of Journalism from 1987 to present. This workshop is sponsored by CNN.

Equipment Used:

¾", 1", BetaSP, D2, Digital Beta, DAT, Abekas A57, Grass Valley 200 Switcher, Abekas 8150 w/ internal and external DVEous, Axial 2010 Edit Controller, CMX 3600 Edit Controller, Graham-Patten Desam 210, 200 & 230, Diskus Disk Recorder, Chyron Maxine, Avid Media Composer 1000 & 8000 w/DVE (Offline & Online), Avid Symphony, Avid Express, Avid Express DV and Final Cut Pro.

FAMILY:

I have been married for 34 years to my wife, Betty. We have a 31 year old daughter who graduated from Georgia State University with a BA in Journalism.