Overview of Experience
Experienced with Rear Wheel Drive
I grew up in Ohio with snowy winters & a rear wheel drive pickup truck. I started driving with my dad on his dad’s farm in his pickup truck. Let’s just say that winters and just about any rainy day in Ohio (there were a lot) was a little bit extra fun because I had my pickup truck. RWD was what I drove every day for 17 years. In 2012, I found the little BMW you see on the left & that car was the next level of RWD with some real power attached. I’m very comfortable driving a car in its upper limits where it looks cool on camera. I can get close to stuff & place the car wherever you want time and time again.
Precision Driving
Need the vehicle nice & close so that even your wide angle lens can’t make it look far away? I can do that, with ease. These photos were how I had to drive each of the eleven trucks on Truck Trend’s Pickup Truck of the Year Event.
The van GIF is from a short film where I had to get footage of the villain’s van charging down the road and initiating that slide.
Car to Car photography is much like driving in Los Angeles trying to catch that yellow light with someone else. You have to get nice & close & move together.
Years of set experience
Since 2005, I have worked on sets. First as a set Production Assistant but then I got booked on a rush call for NCIS and that began a long relationship with Central Casting that continues today. I have worked on NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, CSI, CSI: New York, CSI: Miami, 24, Gilmore Girls, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sons of Anarchy, Entourage, Getting Away with Murder, Snowfall, Big Bang Theory, Morning Show, Gossip Girl, Medium, That’s so Raven, How I Met Your Mother, How I Met Your Father, I probably should have stopped earlier.
I love being on set, in the air is a creative magic thats energizes me, and I leave work feeling inflated rather than deflated. This little looping video here is me doing a hot-to-the-mark at some pedestrians in a crosswalk. These people weren’t stunt performers, they were the actors in the film putting their trust in me to not run them over as they crossed.
Wrenching
I’m no mechanic but I do know what I need to do to get a car to slide. Tire inflator? Check. Tools to jack up the car, get a wheel off & adjust the brake shoes so that we’ll get both tires to lock up? Check. Fire extinguisher? It’s good to be prepared, right? And you can never have enough zip ties!