
Owner at 214 Media - a video production and interactive design company: www.214media.com
Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Owner at 214 Media - a video production and interactive design company: www.214media.com
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Brings a healthy balance of left brain & right brain thinking to projects. An imaginative, creative storyteller with a skill for objective analysis that keeps projects focused on clients' expected results. Goal-oriented, self-starter and a bit of a workaholic.
Marketing, Communications, Directing, Writing, Leadership
(Media Production industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
214 Media is a Dallas Ft. Worth Texas HD video production & interactive multimedia company specializing in corporate communications. Our creative group has produced marketing, training, & orientation videos, flash interactive presentations, commercials, dvds, cds, and streaming video encoding for a variety of Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller regional businesses.
(Media Production industry)
2000 — November 2008 (8 years)
Russ is the Chief Executive within the PixelPops organization and writer/producer/director on many PixelPops projects. Russ specializes in helping his clients understand what they need to say and how best to communicate it. PixelPops offers HD corporate video production for marketing and training, Flash interactive design, DVD & CD authoring, web development, and products and training to assist video production and graphic design professionals. Media production clients have included Intuit, Hotels.com, Cisco, Charles Schwab, Humana, Protection One, HSBC, MBNA, Expedia, Fossil, Ironman Fitness, D Magazine, Chase Paymentech, Scientific Learning, YTB, Tenet Healthcare, Texas Health Resources and a wide variety of small and medium-sized businesses.
(Media Production industry)
1998 — 2008 (10 years)
Action Video Service provides media duplication and conversion services to businesses and consumers. DVD, CD, video duplication, transfer, conversion. Streaming media. Film conversion. Authoring and design.
(Performing Arts industry)
1982 — 1998 (16 years)
In a 15 year professional theatre career, Russ directed several new plays Off-Broadway, acted on Broadway and at Equity regional theatres across the country, and wrote three short plays produced in NYC. He also appeared on primetime and daytime television. As a musician/drummer, he's had the opportunity to perform with Paul McCartney, The Red Clay Ramblers and Little Richard among others. Throughout his creative career, Russ has had the opportunity to work with winners of the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy and the Pulitzer Prize.
1986 — 1988
Trained with legendary teacher/actress Uta Hagen.
BFA , Drama , 1980 — 1984
film, writing, streaming media, high definition technology, Final Cut Pro Studio, XDCAM HD, After Effects, Flash, graphic design, web development, jazz, drums, theatre, Dallas Cowboys, NY Mets
Dallas Producers Association, Media Communications Association-International, Texas Association of Film/Tape Professionals, Texas Motion Picture Alliance, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Telly Awards, Communicator Awards, DV Awards