EXPERlENCE:

AVID SYMPHONY, AVID NITROUS and AVID DS EDITOR

November 2000 - Present

TV FOOD NETWORK

• "Aarti Party"
• "Cook Like an Iron Chef"
• "Tyler's Ultimate"
• "Guy's Big Bite"
• "30 Minute Meals"
• "Cooking For Real"
• "Secrets of a Restaurant Chef"
• "Emeril Live: Rebuilding New Orleans One Meal at a Time" 1 hour special
• "Chefography: Emeril Lagasse" 1 hour program
• reformat 1 hour episodes of "Jamie's Kitchen" UK program for American broadcast
• "Emeril's Thanksgiving with our Troops" 1 hour special
• "Emeril Kicks Up Halloween" 1 hour special
• "Everyday Italian: All Day Sunday" 1/2 hour program
• "Food Finds: Finger Lakes" and "Food Finds: Jewish Food" 1/2 hour programs
• "My Country, My Kitchen: American South with Tyler Florence" and "Southern Italy with Rocco DiSpirito," 1/2 hour programs
• "Bill Boggs' Corner Table: the Music Makers," 1 hour program
• in show packages for "Sara's Secrets,""Emeril Live,""Cooking Live,""In Food Today," "Corner Table," "Sara Moulton Home for the Holidays"
• on - air promos for "Sara's Secrets,""Planet Food,""Oliver's Twist,""A Cook's Tour,""Unwrapped," "Apetite for Adventure,""The Best of,""Emeril Live,""Wolfgang Puck,""Naked Chef," "Cooking Live,"

GREAT AMERICAN COUNTRY TV

• Country Music Awards in NYC November 2005 daily update roll-in packages for Country Across America with Storme Warren

HOME AND GARDEN TV

• in show packages for "Restore America"
• in show packages for "Sew Much More"

ONLINE VIDEO EDITOR

August 2000 - November 2000

TV FOOD NETWORK

• editing air masters for "In Food Today"and "Melting Pot"

AVID SYMPHONY EDITOR

January 2000 - August 2000 freelance clients include:

IMAGING CONSORTIUM, New York, NY

• segments of various lengths for "New York Expeditions" for New York State Lottery Productions

NATIONAL VIDEO New York, NY

• 6:30 Concept piece for MIP presentation "Parole Board" for Grasso/Jacobson Productions

SALOMON SMITH BARNEY New York, NY

• Various package and roll - in pieces for company - wide informational broadcast

FRAME RUNNER/MC Edit, New York, NY

• :30 "tease" openings for The History Channel's "History's Mysteries", 7:32 sales video for Icon Pictures "Maybelline Millennium"

UNITEL VIDEO, New York, NY 1985-1996

Online Video Editor, 1994-1996, various clients include MTV and Sally Jesse Raphael; Online Assistant Editor, 1987-1996, clients include Sesame Street, Nickelodeon, WNBC, WCBS and Bill Moyers' World of ldeas; Video Librarian, 1985-1987, Librarian for post production facility

E-MAGINE COMMUNICATIONS, New York, NY 1996-1998

Sound Designer/Composer/Engineer

Clients and Credits:

 

• Sound Designer and Music Composer/Producer, 3:30 MetLife Corporate lmage Video
• Sound Designer, Music Composer/Producer and Voice Over Engineer "Slimey Goes to the Moon" :30/:20 TV Promo Spots for Sesame Street, broadcast on PBS
• Sound Designer and Music Arranger for 10:00 "Sesame Street Marketing Presentation"
• Sound Designer,"How to Get to Sesame Street" sweepstakes :60/:30 TV promo spots for PBS broadcast
• Sound Designer, Music Composer/Producer and Voice Over Engineer 6 x :30 promo spots for NY State Development Corp., TV network broadcast
• Sound Designer and Music Composer/Producer 28 pieces of various lengths for program packaging on Austral Television, a South American cable station
• Radio media tour Engineer, Auritt Communications, featuring authors showcasing their current books in interview format from studio to various radio stations reaching markets up to 6 million listeners
  

SCHOLASTIC NEW MEDIA, New York, NY January 1999-June 1999

Software Quality Assurance

Projects:

• "Learning Cubes"
• "Read 180"
  

ANDREW H. TURITS MUSIC FOR PRODUCTION, 1991-Present

Music composition and production

Music and sting for "Butterflies, Bugs & other Beasties" for Spiny Software, UK children's educational product; Episodic underscore for Sally Jesse Raphael and Bill Moyers World of ldeas; Program package/promo pieces for Nickelodeon's Kartoon Kablooey; Music composition for CD ROM magazine Blender VR game "Find the Ghost of JFK"; Music composition for independent short film, "WWIII"

UNITEL VIDEO, New York, NY 1985-1996
Online Video Editor, 1994-1996, various clients include MTV and Sally Jesse Raphael; Online Assistant Editor, 1987-1996, clients include Sesame Street, Nickelodeon, WNBC, WCBS and Bill Moyers' World of ldeas; Video Librarian, 1985-1987, Librarian for post production facility

EDUCATION

 

• Future Media Concepts, New York, NY, 1999, Completed AVID Master Class: Introduction to AVID Media Composer, Advanced Editing, Introduction to Media Composer Effects, Advanced Media Composer Effects and Integrating 3rd Party Graphics
• SUNY New Paltz, B.A. Communications/Radio and Television, 1985
• Dutchess Community College, A.A. Behavioral Sciences, 1983

SKlLLS

COMPUTERS: Working knowledge of Macintosh and Windows operating systems, HTML, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Word

MUSlC: Piano, 6 and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitars, analog and digital synthesisers and samplers, drums and percussion. Composer using sampling keyboards and various guitars in conjunction with Pro Tools digital recording and Logic MlDl sequencing software on Macintosh computer plafform with sync record to picture or DAT master

VlDEO: Operational knowledge of CMX 3400, Chyron character generator, 1", beta, digibeta, D2 and 3/4" video machines

AUDlO: Operational knowledge of Multitrack Reel to Reel, DAT, hard disc, analog and digital recording and mixing systems, outboard signal processing gear and multi-line radio talk show equipment

MEMBERSHIPS & AWARDS

ASCAP member; National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Daytime Emmy Certificates 1993-1994 and 1994-1995 for Multiple Camera Editing in a Non-Drama Series for Sesame Street; 1998 CINE Golden Eagle Award for sound design and music arrangement on the Children's Television Workshop "Marketing and Communications 30th Celebration"; Composed logo sting for CTWs 1999 Special EDI Award winning documentary "Paving the Road to Diversity on Sesame Street"

References, Sound Design/Composition reel and Video Editor reel available on request