Director Training
Resume:
Darren Williams, Producer/Director/Technical Director
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P R O F E S S I O N A L P R O F I L E
Darren Williams has 25+ years of progressively responsible experience in producing & directing live to air and live to tape multi
camera broadcast events. Mr. Williams has supervised, and actively participated in internal and external video content productions for
multiple government, commercial, corporate, sports, news, broadcast, and association clients. As an award winning Producer &
Director, Mr. Williams is well versed and accustomed to managing multiple projects, from multi camera, multi site live
broadcasts/webcasts to standalone video/DVD/web products to single camera recordings & media tours. Mr. Williams has an
extensive array of awards & experience supervising and leading clients, technical staff and on camera talent, both highly experienced
& less experienced, in support of each project s objectives.
P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E
Partner/Senior Producer/President 1990 Present
Hawkeye Productions
Award winning Executive, Senior, and Project Producer for variety of clients.
Award winning Multi camera (studio & field), Talent, Location Director for variety of clients.
Aegis Award Best Producer/Director, 1998, 2001, 2005, & Best Production Company, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
Crystal Communicator Awards (18), A Variety of Federal Government clients, Producer & Director.
Telly Awards (6), Producer & Director.
TIVA Peer Awards (4), Producer & Director.
Credits Include:
Interface Media Group/International Launch Services, live rocket launch webcast series
Discovery Science Daily Discovery Channel
PBS: White House Chronicle PBS Weekly Show (Studio & On Location)
PCME: Potomac Center for Medical Education Medical Instructional Programming for top U.S. Continuing
Medical Education Provider
Annual Reports from Annual HIV/AIDS Conferences HRSA/Public Health Service
America Online, "Employee Meeting Series"
Hewlett Packard, "HPWorld" External Communications reports
Showtime Networks, "'In The Line of Fire' Promotionals"
Toyota Corporation, "Crash Dummies"
U.S. News & World Report, "U.S. News & World Report Debate" series
White House Media Affairs, PSA Series with Presidents Reagan, Bush & Clinton
White House/America Political Network, "America Reads" PSA Series
Federal Bureau of Investigation, "FBITN" series
U.S. Department of Education, "Federal Student Aid" broadcast/webcast series
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, various live events, broadcasts & webcasts
Parkinson s Action Network webcast series
ASHRAE International webcast series
Ernst & Young webcast series
KPMG webcast series
Senior Director, North America 2009 2011
RT North America
Hired, under Retainer, for a 2 year startup period to begin North American operations for RT s English channel, based in
Washington, DC, and with bureaus in Los Angeles, New York, and Miami broadcasts to more than 100 countries,
worldwide
Managed, led, trained, and guided newly hired staff direction team and technical team of 50+ individuals from startup
phase to fully operational daily programming
Worked with Engineering, Distribution, Post Production, and Field Production teams to help integrate technical
operations
Lent expertise to practical installation of high end broadcast gear, which includes Dalet Enterprise Edition news Server,
Omneon Spectrum video playback servers, Vizrt news graphics with Viz Content Pilot, Grass Valley Kayak HD300
switchers, 256 x 256 Grass Valley Trinix SD/HD router, 103in Panasonic plasma panel with U Touch touch screen overlay
(allowing use of FingerWorks Telestrator), Twelve Planar Clarity Margay II rear projection DLP cubes (creating a 90in x
160in stacked display with an ICS VW processor), Ethernet to Russia via TANDBERG H.264 encoders, Front Porch Digital s
DIVArchive, Nova 17 matrix controller, Zirkon XL audio mixing console Full Equipment Listing here:
http://broadcastengineering.com/hdtv/rt adds washington dc 0910/index2.html#ixzz1yHBRMpfq
Provided design and execution skills for daily talk shows, and live hourly news shows for RT English
Provided Direction and Technical Direction for 3 daily talk shows, and live hourly news shows for RT English
Contract Producer 1986 1995
FEMA s Emergency Education Network
Crystal Communicator Awards (18), A Variety of Federal Government clients, Producer & Director
Telecon Awards (6), "Emergency Education Network" (Federal Emergency Management Agency), Producer
Satellite distributed, distance learning network for fire/police/medical personnel, emergency services administrators, state
emergency agencies, and ancillary services providers
Directed award winning 9 site (X 3 cameras per site), 27 camera total broadcast on energy pipeline safety from FEMA
Control Room
Produced & directed award winning CDC disease prevention series
Produced & directed award winning clandestine drug laboratory series in cooperation with DEA & FBI entities
Produced & directed award winning Emergency Services Town Halls following major U.S. disasters such as Oakland wildfires,
Hurricane Andrew
Production Services 1984 1990
Freelance Production Technical Staff
EMMY Award, "Games of the XXIVth Olympiad" (NBC Sports), Lighting Direction and Camera
ACE (Award for Cable Excellence), "Russia: Live From the Inside" (Discovery Channel), Camera
Director of Photography, Lighting Director, Camera Operator, Assistant Director for a variety of freelance clients, from
broadcast television to Hollywood film clients
NBC Sports long term freelance for NFL football, NBA basketball, & MLB baseball broadcasts
Credits Include:
NBC Sports Camera Operator/Assistant Director NBC Sports
Bill Moyers: In Search of the Constitution PBS Special Series
Russia: Live From the Inside Discovery Channel
Excorcist III 20th Century Fox
JFK Warner Brothers
Tape Room Supervisor / Various Production Positions 1984 1986
Atlantic Video, Inc.
Responsible for multi format, multi use tape room/technical core (broadcast, edit, duplication)
Traffic & Operations Manager for duplication facility running 1000+ dubs concurrently
Floor Director, Lighting Director, Camera, Technical Director, Graphics for BET Network contracted shows.
A W A R D S
EMMY Award, "Games of the XXIVth Olympiad" (NBC Sports, 1988), Lighting Direction and Camera
ACE (Award for Cable Excellence), "Russia: Live From The Inside" (Discovery Channel, 1988), Camera
Aegis Award, Best Production Company, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Aegis Award, Best Producer/Director, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
(6) Telecon Awards, "Emergency Education Network" (Federal Emergency Management Agency), Producer
(18) Crystal Communicator Awards, Federal Government clients, Producer & Director
(6) Telly Awards, Producer & Director
E D U C A T I O N
George Mason University, B.A. Speech Communications, 1984
A D D I T I O N A L
T R A I N I N G / S K I L L S
Newtek HD TriCaster Training (2012)
Sony Switcher Training (2009)
Grass Valley Kalypso/Kayak Switcher Training (2008)
Panasonic Digital Camera Training (2008)
Apple Digital Workflow Training (2007)
Final Cut Pro Training (2003)
Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator Training (2002)
Avid Media Composer Training (2000)
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