Jason Leonard1572 NE Neawanna DriveLees Summit, MO 64086

816-529-5425 (CELL); jasonsleonard@yahoo.comwww.linkedin.com/in/jasonsleonard

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS AND MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Team Motivater: Skilled at cultivating a team of videographers in coaching, training, and skill development in order to successfully capture multiple facets of video for attorneys throughout Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Arkansas

Creative and Detailed: Utilized my abilities to stratigically capture the critical moments and other crucial video to assist government officials such as FEMA, CIA, and US army documenting multiple top secret projects, causing me to travel internationally to Germany, Japan, and South Korea, as well as multiple states such as Maryland, Texas, Kentucky, New York, Washington, Kansas, Wisconsin, California, and Hawaii

Results Oriented: Received multiple Certificates of Excellence from military officials, as well as receiving a Telly Award for video creation with Luke Town Country music singer

Strong Equipment Knowledge: Excellent working knowledge of multiple makes and models of editing software and video equipment

Marketing Ability: Strong ability to promote services and connect with people building stable cliential through collective 15 years of sales experience

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO 2012 – PresentContract Media Technician

Successfully captured speaking engagements through media in order to develop high quality recordings to further educate the staff

Collaborated with staff to coordinate and organize video conferencing, recordings, and other media based technology to meet the goals and needs of the company.

Fireside Productions LLC/Patriot Legal Video, Lees Summit, MO 2007 – PresentProducer/Director

Captured vital testimony for many local and national law firms in order to ensure accurate and detailed video for trial

To ensure the best quality and thorough onsite editing, multiple technical equipment were used for a percise final product

Creatively recorded different types of media documentaries such as “Day in the Life” capturing drastic changes in lives of people due to unfortunate occurrences

Northrop Grumman, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 2007-2012Photojournalist

As a key member of Public Affairs media team, consulted and assisted USArmy, government entities, including FEMA in capturing video on handling diasterous situations

Successfully captured highly important exercises as they acted out stepbystep procedures in order to ensure the best of guidelines to protect our airmen and citizens in case of natural and man-made disaster

Edited and finalized numerous amounts of video along with a team which captured accounts of different scenarios of which our officials could collaborate on safety and security

Setup and conducted press conferences and interviews which articulated the mock senarios

Freelance Video Production, Kansas City, Missouri 2002-2012Video Production Specialist

Assisted in the production of Three Walmart Commericals by assisting in the coordination and flow of the set as well as ensuring the accuracy of prop positioning

Worked with a 40 member production crew to develop a documentary featuring the contract of Ford's first years and the present years of Ford for their 100 year anniversary

Documented the formulation of Bear corporation and creation of Bayer Captured Bill Nye while experimenting with science at Science City, Union Station Supported and created with a team the Telly Award winner video by Luke Town

Missouri Air National Guard, 139th Air Lift Wing, St. Joseph, Missouri 2002-2008Video Information Specialist

Video documented and edited government secret information assisting in capturing necessary information for high officials to view and collaborate on

Created training documentaries for airmen to use for various training aspects in multiple departments

KCTV5, Fairway, Kansas 2003-2007Field Photojournalist

Video multiple live events and gave quality coverage throughout the Kansas City area Edited morning show in-studio, integrating media video from news affiliates nationwide Covered over 100 hours of live traffic from the News Chopper video capturing traffic patterns and other issues

throughout the Kansas City metro area

EQUIPMENT AND SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

Apple OS HD videography Microsoft Office Advanced Photo Editing Creston-AMX Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Suite Final Cut Pro HD

Avid Editing System Trial Directory Visionary Sanction Multiple video models of Panasonic, Sony, Canon,

and others

EDUCATION

Associate Degree, Video Production and Documentaries 2003Defense Information School, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland

Associate of Arts Degree and Multimedia CertificateMetropolitan Community College, Kansas City, Missouri 2002

SUMMARY

As a video production specialist, I have accomplished numerous video production services creating and recreating imagery and scenarios in multiple facets of life. I've assisted both private sector and highest government entities in documenting important facets of mission oriented exercises. I was able to successfully accomplish producing video that would capture the message that each individual client needed to portray with quality and accuracy. I've collaborated and teamed with both small and large production crews ensuring a smooth process in achieving our goals. As a result of the talent that I've been able to portray, I've worked with high officials and mutiple legal establishments traveling both nationally and internationally.