MEET ORM

My earliest years include work in radio and television broadcast news. What a wonderful job—crushing deadlines, stress, and the honor of covering the extremes of the human experience. Those years remind me of what a survivor of the Japanese attack on “Pearl Harbor” once told me: “It was a darned thing at the time—but I wouldn’t trade it for a million bucks.” Broadcast news is the foundation of my work. The writing, reporting and basic storytelling grew from covering all those stories – all those extremes. In 1989, I traded the adrenaline-soaked world of commercial television news for the relative quiet of a major Midwestern university. For six years, I produced a library of video content to help the university raise money and recruit students. In 1995, I returned to news to help the school’s PBS station launch a live, half-hour television newscast. For nearly a decade I taught college level classes in broadcast news and managed a television newsroom.

Since the launch of Oakview Road Media in 2005, I have been constantly reminded of one thing. It’s all about relationships—trusting relationships. My clients have learned I am careful and hard working, and will do whatever is required to make a project succeed. Throughout the project, keeping the communication channels open is important. Phone calls or e-mails always get a quick response. I want to provide professional media production service at a reasonable cost—a perfect fit for every company and organization that needs to tell a story. Oakview Road Media has produced television content—both interactive and broadcast—for the Illinois Department of Public Health, Mt. Vernon Convention and Visitors Bureau, Saline County Tourism Board, WSIU-TV, Southern Illinois Regional Social Services, Center for Comprehensive Services, Baldwin Media Development, Illinois Community College Board, Neighborhood Houses of St. Louis, WTCT-TV, Vestibular Technologies, Mound City National Cemetery Preservation Commission and the MENTOR ABI Network. Click the “Contact Us” button at the top and let me know how I can help, or give me a call. Awards: Illinois Humanities Council Major Media Grant, 2004; Illinois Archaeological Survey Public Service Award, 2005; Southern Illinois Regional Social Services Friend Award, 2007.