GENERAL BACKGROUND
35 years experience in all aspects of the entertainment & production business in Los Angeles, California. An established background with experienced in development, talent booking, production advance, pre-production, promotion, advertising, and production of large special events & television projects with an emphasis on concert and music television production. Experienced with  contractual, economical, promotional  & operational requirements of large venues. 

PRODUCTION
Musical concerts, live events, all types of staging, exhibits, tradeshows, recording of professional audio & multi camera video, film production, broadcast, cable and all forms of distribution including home video, DVD, digital, and webcasting.
Experience with non-linear postproduction & Avid edit systems. 



INTRODUCED IN THE PRODUCTION
Video Producer - October 4^th 2001 /  4th Annual Vocal Group Hall of Fame Concert
Held at The Museum in Sharon Pennsylvania. The Lettermen, Lennon Sisters, Miracles, The Vogues, Sonny Til's Legendary Orioles, Mary Wilson AND MANY OTHERS, Award Show, Concert.  DVD for release.

President / CEO The Vocal Group Hall of Fame Foundation

Producer - September 18, 2002 / 5th Annual Vocal Group Hall of Fame Induction Concert held at Cafaro Field Niles, Ohio
The 5th Dimension, Mam's & Pap's, The Modernaires, Sonny Til's Legendary Oriles, The Clovers, The Marcels, The Flamingos, Frankie Lymons Legendary Teenagers, Mary Wilson of The Supremes, Charlie Thomas of The Drifters, The Temptations, The Ink Spots,
The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Letttermen, The Original Jay & The Americans an All Inductee Finale - DVD and CD for release

Producer - September 17 & 18, 2003 / 6th Annual Vocal Group Hall of Fame Foundation Induction Concert held at Cafaro Field Niles, Ohio
Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters, Charlie Thomas of The Drifters, The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Pied Pipers, The Lettermen, The Harptones, The Clovers, The Association, Carl Gardner of The Coasters, The Four Lads, The Manhattan Transfer, Danny & The Juniors,
The Orioles, The Impressions, The 5th Dimension, Harold Jacksons Ink Spots, The Teenagers, Jay & The Americans,
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, The Skyliners, Mary Wilson of The Supremes an All Inductee Finale.
  


Producer - July 5-7, 2004 / 7th Annual
Vocal Group Hall of Fame Foundation Induction
Concert held at Wildwood Convention Center, Wildwoods, New Jersey - The O'Jays, Al Jardine founding member of the Beach Boys,
Earl (SPEEDO) Carroll of the Cadillacs, The Tokens, The Marveletts, J.T. Carter of the Crests, Russell Thomkins Jr. former lead singer of the Stylistics, The Diamonds, The Jordanaires, The Chantels, Sonny Turner and Herb Reed of the Platters, Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters, Charlie Thomas of The Drifters, The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Lettermen, The Clovers, The Association, Carl Gardner of The Coasters, Danny & The Juniors, The Orioles, The Impressions, Florence LaRue of the 5th Dimension, Harold Jacksons Ink Spots, Jimmy Merchant of the Teenagers, Jay Traynor of Jay & the Americans, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, The Skyliners,
Mary Wilson of The Supremes an All Inductee Finale.
  
Current PRODUCER representing The US Festival entire production to all media worldwide for distribution
Providing all clearences for ICON TELEVISION.  SEE VIDEO CLIP  - See more below under US Festival  
www.icontvmusic.com  The Rock Anthology Collection          

PRESENTLY - Representing Entertainment USA - Managing Partner,                        
Venue development and Producer  for 99 acre park.  Responsible for all bookings, 
promoters, sponsorships & concessionaire lease agreements, operations of the park,
attraction development and production at the park.  

(Home of the Scrappers - Cleveland  Indians minor league baseball team)

RECENT NORTH EAST  EMPLOYMENT
Employed by The Cafaro Company as Producer for Cafaro Stadium Company. Employed approximately 2 years.  Landlord representative of Cafaro Field for two Scrapper baseball seasons and produced all the concerts at Cafaro Field to date other then "Pops at the Ballpark".
      
Developed the venue produced the concert series supervising all aspects of the production including pre-production, artist booking, scheduling, contracting of vendors, suppliers, show contractors, promotion & advertising, ticketing, merchandise and line-production. Administrated artist and sports contracts, all day leases, promoters, and tour sponsors. Researched and explored many other types of amusement attractions that might complement the Eastwood Mall Complex.

"TSUNAMI" - 35 Churches from the area participated in the promotion of the Christian Concert & Rally. News Boys & Raze - Rented to church groups. Produced by Bob Crosby for the Cafaro Stadium Company  & Church's to maintain production, field and venue  integrity. 3,982 attendance. 


                                                                                 
"SATURDAY NIGHT DISCO" - Kool & the Gang, Village People, & Disco Explosion. Dance floors, disco lights and bubble machines throughout the stadium. Included the production of a multi-camera, wide screen video production recorded for broadcast and home video distribution.  Produced by Bob Crosby for the Cafaro Stadium Co. 4,637 attendance 
 
                                                   
                      
"98 DEGREES CONCERT"                   
98 Degrees, PYT, & Bonnia. Included the production of wide screen video professionally recorded  for TV broadcast and home video product.  Produced by Bob Crosby for the Cafaro Stadium Company. 6,621attendance.   
    
                                                          

          


"COUNTRY NIGHT"  
 (Jo Dee Messina, Dwight Yoakam, & Gary Allan)  Provided all booking, advance, pre-production, talent and production riders & contractors, stage, lights, & sound design for the final 2001 concert at Cafaro Field. Not on site. Gary Allan performed, Jo Dee & Dwight were rained out.

The work accomplished during my employment also consisted of designing a variety of seating charts, and a reserved seat ticket system with portable in-field seats.  Produced the creative and production of all print, radio, and TV commercial advertising campaigns. Represented the productions of the concerts to the press, newspaper, radio & TV news and morning shows. Functioned as Executive in Charge of Production, implemented all production systems and trained all of the Cafaro Company and Eastwood Mall employees that now service the rental of the stadium to out-side promoters.

The stadium is now registered with all entertainment industry tour & search engines, major talent agencies and artist tour routing list & schedules. All contractors are now trained and in place. All venue logistics and systems worked out and in place. The stadium now has a proven track record of producing successful concerts and is ready to be leased to promoters. 

SAMPLE OF SPECIAL EVENTS HELD AT CAFARO FIELD
Youngstown, Warren Regional Chambers "Day in the Ballpark" and "Chamber Mixer" American Cancer Society " Relay for Life" and "The Mahoning Valley Rib-Fest" featuring Charlie Daniels Band, Michael Stanley Band & others. 

West Coast Production

TELEVISION PRODUCTION  
DICK CLARK Productions – 2 years on staff in the production of a dozen prime time LIVE music specials. The 5^th & 6^th American Music Awards, American Bandstands 25^th Anniversary, NBC Photo Play Awards, Good OL Days, Rock N Roll New Years Eve, ABC’s 25^th Anniversary Show, 2,500 celebrity audiences, FULL UNION PRODUCTION Shrine Auditorium, ABC Network and the Santa Monica Civic Center – Production Coordinator / Manager.

David Bowie, U2, Van Halen, Santana, Jimmy Buffet, The Police, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, INXS, OZZY Osborne / Black Sabath, Motley Crue:, Talking Heads, The Clash, The Ramons, The Cars, Stray Cats, Scorpions, Judas Priest, B52's, Eddie Money, Triumph, Divinyls, Pretenders, Berlin, Joe Walse, Stevie Nicks, Quiet Riot, Pat Benatar, Onigo Boingo, Wall of Vodoo, English Beat, Men At Work, Flock of Seagulls, Gang of Four, Jackson Brown, Tom Petty, Emmy Lou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Rickie Scaggs, Jerry Jeff Walker, Riders In The Sky, Thrasher Brothers, Little Stevie Van Zandt and Quarterflash and many others. Put together the sale of all 2,300 hours of US FESTIVAL original Audio / Video programming consisting of 50 major music groups and artist performances. Master tapes were sold to the Music & Entertainment Network.Presently representing the entire production to all media worldwide for distribution - providing all clearences as PRODUCER for ICON TELEVISION.           SEE VIDEO CLIP   www.icontvmusic.com  The Rock Anthology Collection                                                                                                                                                                          
VIETNAM VETERANS BENEFIT CONCERT & HBO CABLECAST - Founder and benefit production design consultant. "WELCOME HOME" 10 years after – Participated in the start of the project with Mike Slarve. Formed Non-Profit 501c3. The HBO program raised  $2,000,000 in call in donations and started the trend for other show like Comedy Relief. Fundraising for the benefit of veterans organizations. Assisted in talent booking, contracts and production budgets for concert producers Avalon Attractions and TV Producer Ken Erlick. Events held at Great Western Forum and RFK Stadium. Crosby Stills Nash & Young, John Fogerty, Sammy Hager, Joe Walse, Anita Baker and others. 

PRODUCTION DESIGN CONSULTANT TO ED CABITINI - INTERIM PARK DIRECTOR - Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino California 1987. Assisted in the masterplan as it related to the construction of the amphitheater at the US FESTIVAL site. Consulted from the promoter’s point of view. Participated all the way through the RFP process as an unsuccessful bidding candidate. The facility is now known as
Block Buster Pavilion.
 
FREELANCE  - PROJECTS, TV, CONCERTS, PROMOTIONS, PRODUCTIONS, CONSULTANT 
L.A. Coliseum - Music Festival - Several acts 50,000 attendance, Production Coordinator
Pasadena Rose Bowl - Beach Boys, Jackson Brown & others 50,000 attendance, Stage Production.
Minnesota Country Music Festival – Several Country acts 30,000 attendance, Production Consultant.
Long Beach Blues Festival - BB King BBQ Blues Festival 17,500 attendance, Talent Coordinator.
Hollywood Bowl - John Denver, Doobie Brothers, Lily Tomlin, Robin Williams, Video Production.
College Invasion - Fort Lauderdale Florida Beach, early MTV spec project, one hit acts, TV Production.
Hollywood Palladium - Halloween Dance Party, mix of talent. 5,000 attendance, Concert Producer.

INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION 100) Night Club Gigs. 75) Business plans / budgets / concert, TV packages. 
50) Radio station promo’s. 30) Music video’s. 20) Mountain & desert jams. 10) Management recording contracts. 3) completed record company album projects and many demos.

MARKETING PROJECTS 
General Manager, Barr Films – 2 year Downsize of a 60-yr. old educational film company. 600 core curriculum titles transferred from film to video. Over 3,000 titles in all. Re-distributed programming in formats acceptable in distance learning, cable casting and closed circuit broadcasting. Duplication rights, licenses of special programs and rentals averaged $300,000 per month in sales. Outsource all duplication, cut warehouse and sub-distributed programs through 12 national & international distribution companies. Reduced overhead & downsized company.

HEAD ELF / Owner / SANTA’S HELPERS  
18 years in the Christmas tree business. Purchased harvest rights from growers in the Pacific Northwest. Washington and Oregon grown trees hand picked over 3 year period per farm, cut, helicopter to roadside, bailed, loaded on trucks to Oregon and Los Angeles warehouse for national shipping. 22 Christmas trees lots all around the Hollywood Hills, Sunset Blvd. Hollywood & Ventura Blvd. Studio City, Encino. Main lot centered at the Hollywood Bowl parking lot. Sold several hundred Christmas trees 10ft. to 20ft. to banks, hotels and studios. 

Sample clients - Christmas trees sold to: 125) Bank of America, 60) California Federal branch offices and studios including 100 prestige industry clients such as Screen Actors Guild, Directors Guild, A&M Records, Warner Bros. David Geffen, Eddie Van Halen, George Clooney, Brian Setzer, Joan Van Ark, Tony Danza, Dionne Warwick, Wolfgang Puck . Produced the Mark & Brian (Popular syndicated radio personalities) worlds largest one-day tree lot for 10 years, KLOS charity event, celebrities would come to tree lot to help promote one day tree lot.

                                       
                    Santa's Helpers Commercial
Several years of delivering Christmas trees in traffic in LA led to developing a new method of delivery. 4ft to 7ft Christmas trees were individually shipped via UPS in cardboard candy cane printed shipping cylinders complete with a waterbowl and tree stand. Distributed from 2) 25,000 square foot warehouses in Tangent Oregon and Van Nuys California. Marketed through 88 radio stations across the country participating in a charity fundraiser that earned 15% of the gross sale of each tree. The station would pick a charity of choice and would promote an 800#  issued to them. The stations contributed public service announcement time to promoting the 800#s to the listeners, "Buy a tree, send one to Mom in Florida, and help the charity". Acquired the equivalent of $500,000 national radio ad campaign, shipped 50 big rig semi’s, 30,000 Christmas trees, grossed $1.8M first year. Novelty lasted two years. Sold all equipment, lot supplies and trucks to my crew and employees. Retired from the tree business 4 years ago.

FILM BROKER
Started in the entertainment business buying raw stock undeveloped Motion Picture Film. Purchased unused film from major studio producers. Resold the film to independent film makers and low budget producers / directors. Example: The movie "Sun Shine Boys" Walter Mathau & George Burns. Artist used few takes leaving ½ the film for purchase and resale to Roger Korman for low budget feature requiring only ½ the film issued by the major studio. Started production career, Associate Producer 5 low budget features.