Michael J. Kellam II
P.O. Box 844, Andover, KS 67002
316-733-6768
Michael@KellamMedia.com

Education:

B.S. Radio-Television-Film
The University of Texas at Austin, 1991

Qualifications/Skills:

• managing people including training, mentoring, hiring, firing and handling performance issues
  
  
• budgeting, data analysis and resource allocation
  
  
• excellent interpersonal skills
  
  
• excellent problem solving skills
  
  
• producing, directing and coordinating multiple video, film and web media projects
  
  
• proficient in writing, editing and consulting
  
  
• video editing, linear and non-linear (Final Cut Pro, Avid, Premiere Pro, CMX)
  
  
• designing and manipulating graphics in Photoshop
  
  
• Experience with digital and analog broadcast tape formats
  
  
• Digital Video Effects (After Effects, Motion, Boris FX, Pinnacle Alladin)
  
  
• studio and location lighting (Mole Richardson, Lowel, HMI Lighting)
  
  
• camera operation (Sony, Panasoni, JVC, Ikegami)
  
  
• DVD Production (DVD Studio Pro, Adobe Encore DVD)
  
  
• use of time base correctors, waveform monitors, vectorscopes and routers
  
  
• web publishing and developing media for web applications
  
  
• web video and audio streaming (Quick Time, Windows Media)
  
  

Awards:

• "Judgement House Promo" - Producer/Editor, Telly Award 2006
  
  
• "Department of Corrections: A Career Opportunity" - Editor, Aegis Award 1999
  
  
• "Craig's Story" - Editor, Education Award 1991, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
  
  

Employment Experience:

Vice President /Media Producer
January 2006 to Present
Kellam Media and Publishing, Inc.

(We have been publishing frugal living books and a web site since 1999.)

Duties: Writing articles, print editing, graphic design, typesetting, designing and administering web site (www.livingonadime.com), producing video programs including "Old Cowtown Museum" (which aired regionally on Public Television), publishing twice-weekly newsletter and "tip of the day" - Published 17 book and e-book titles including the "Dining On A Dime Cookbook".

Television/Video Producer
May 2003 to January 2006
Messiah Baptist Church, Wichita, KS

Duties: Producing Answers For Life television program for national and local distribution, directing 3 multiple camera shoots per week; recruiting, scheduling and supervising production crew, producing field based promos and short special interest videos

Production Manager
April 2001 to January 2004
KPTS Public Television, Wichita, KS

Duties: Producing and directing live, studio and field produced programs for statewide and local delivery; supervising production department involving complete reorganization, hiring and firing, budgeting, budgetary analysis and allocation, crew training and delegation

Video Producer
July 1996 to August 1998, July 1999 to October 1999
Washington State University Extended Degree Programs, Pullman, WA

Duties: Producing and directing documentary style distance learning courses for video and web delivery; training and supervising studio crew and support personnel

Television Producer
August 1997 to July 1999
Northwest Public Television (PBS), Pullman, WA

Duties: Directing and editing PBS network and local programming including the PBS programs Scheewe Art Workshop, Fly Tying: The Angler's Art, Dutch Oven and Camp Cooking and Jenkins' Art Studio.

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