into a career of wide-ranging experience: music videos, television comedy, feature films, documentaries, branding, art installations, and non-profit public service.

I contract with a variety of corporate and cultural clients. I’ve developed different approaches to planning, executing, and delivering what’s required, while maintaining many long-term client relationships like I’ve had with Medtronic, where I produced and directed projects for more than 17 years.

Of the many projects I’ve worked on, I’m most proud of directing and co-producing 32 episodes of the live-action sitcom The Choo Choo Bob Show. As an integral creative leader, I experienced the thrill of absurdist creative collaboration, rabid viewer engagement, awards, and all kinds of other fun stuff (episodes on Peacock or The Choo Choo Bob Show YouTube Channel).

Other highlights include creating the documentary Use Your Van (2004, producer, director, editor), a feature-length biopic on musician Mason Jennings; my work creating videos for Friends of the Orphans (now NPH), an organization that provides a loving home for orphaned and abandoned children throughout the Caribbean and Central America; and, of course, regularly getting to work with some of my favorite people in the production community.

I began in 1989 at a video production house (Televideo Productions), working nearly every crew position (including producer, director, editor, and/or director of photography) for Harder/Fuller Films, where I had a role in creating cutting edge music videos, documentaries, and commercials. Music artists include Afghan Whigs, Ash, fIREHOSE, Flaming Lips, Jayhawks, Joe Henry, Ice-T, Incubus, Liz Phair, Local H, Low, Macy Gray (Target spot), Matchbox Twenty, Prince, The Replacements, Retribution Gospel Choir, Rob Thomas, Son Volt, Sonic Youth, Soul Asylum, Paul Westerberg, and more than eighty others.

As a producer, director, editor, and director of photography, I’ve provided services for many agencies and video production facilities including 3M, Arctek Satellite Productions, Greatapes Inc., Mainstream Communications, Periscope, Pixel Farm, Relay House, Rich Image Video, and Visual Horizon Communications. 

Productions include 3M, 3M Senior Golf Championship, AARP, American Express, Ameriprise, Aegis Healthcare, Arctic Cat, Ben & Jerry’s, Bell Museum, Best Buy, Cargill, Carlson Marketing Group, Caterpillar, Celine Dion/Caeser’s Palace, Cray Research, Ecolab, Federal Reserve Bank, First Bank, Geek Squad, Great Clips, Holiday Inn, Honeywell Inc., Hormel, IBM, ING, Imation Inc., Josten’s, Kawasaki, Kraus-Anderson, Land O’Lakes, Microsoft, Martha Stewart, Medtronic, Microsoft, Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Vikings, Minnesota Wild, NCAA, Northwest Airlines, Ocean Spray, PGA, Pioneer Seed, Piper Jaffray, Polaris, Publishers Clearing House, Roma Pizza, Reuters News Service, Saturn Corporation, Seagate Technology, Inc., St. Jude Medical, Inc., Starkey Labs, Syntegra, Target, Thrifty Car Rental, United Health Care, US Bank, The Venetian Hotel, Von’s/Safeway Foods, and Wells Fargo.

Network and entertainment companies include 20th Century Fox, ABC Good Morning America, ABC Jimmy Kimmel Show, ABC World News Tonight, All News Channel, C-Span, CBS Good Morning, CBS Face the Nation, CBS Sports, CNBC, Channel One, Court TV, Disney, ESPN, Fox News, Fox Sportsnet, HBO, MSNBC, NBC Late Line, NBC Late Show with David Letterman, NBC Today Show, PAX, QVC, Victory Sports, Atlantic Records, Capitol Records, Columbia Records, Elektra Records, Epic Records, Island Records, RCA/BMG, Real Time with Bill Maher, Relativity Records, Reprise Home Video, Sony Music, Sub Pop Records, TVT Records,  WJMK Public Television, Warner Bros. (records and television), YES network, and Virgin Records.

Public benefit organizations include Friends of the Orphans, Hamline University, Hennepin Children’s Mental Health Collaborative, Junior Achievement, Kinship, Lutheran Brotherhood, MDA, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Trinity Church (New York), United Way, and University of Minnesota.