Fairis Simpson
6009 NW Wolverine RD
Port St. Lucie, Fl 34986

Cell - 321-246-1626

Certifications: Palm Beach County
 TV Production- 7-G-648
  Marketing      - 7-G-564

U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division
Ft. Bragg, NC
From 1984- 1987
Honorably served in NATO in Vincenza, Italy

VIDEO PODCASTING & ADVERTISING
NEW WAVE TV MARKETING 
Port St. Lucie, FL
From 1987- Present

Duties Include -  Sales and Marketing, Developing marketing strategy for clientele, produced video ads, edit products via Final Cut Pro software (TV industry standard) 

Assists the Production Manager in scheduling and overseeing production processes; Coordinates story, work with budgetary needs, and manage project. Conducted field shoots, perform video production duties; edited project in Final Cut Pro. Set design and various aspects of field shoots. Also responsible for  equipment, supplies and maintaining a working inventory of supplies and equipment within budgetary restraints. Negotiated TV Network cost and availability. Provided the creative and editorial direction and assumes responsibility for the production values, aesthetic qualities, and editorial content of programs customer and schedule run.  
 
Palm Beach County School System
West Palm Beach, FL
9/2004 – 9/2008

West Palm Beach, Fl 
Palm Beach County School Board:
From September 2004 - September 2008 TV Production and Marketing Instructor
Duties included Teaching marketing and Internet TV Production to students 8th to 12th grade.
Developed, coordinated and taught the Internet TV classes, as well as assisted in the review and evaluation of the Internet TV and Marketing curriculum in the Palm Beach county school.   I was also responsible for classroom training and maintaining records, for the vocational courses in the field of TV & Internet TV Production and Marketing.  Other duties included teaching students how to developed ideas and transform their ideas via story board and design. Students are taught how to execute production of television news and information programs with an innovative and creative approach. Students learn the use of various compressions formats, MPEG via live streaming and/or recorded newscasts, talk shows, breaking news specials, and remote programs. 

Further duties consisted of, teaching students how to function as technical broadcasters, writers, editors, reporters, and on-air talent.  Students also learned how to use the control room within the Internet TV studio. Students were taught how to perform duties as show directors, technical directors, audio directors, floor directors, graphics operators, playback operators, video editors, copy editors, and/or graphic artists in order to produce timely, high quality programming.  

Also, additional duties consisted of teaching students basic camera technique and principles of lighting for television production and how to operate HD cameras in a studio setting as well as in the field. Students learn how to use blue and green screens. Students were taught non-linear editing utilizing the industry standard,
Final Cut Pro, and output formats such as TV commercials, Live streaming video, video on demand, and DVD Wire cast, Students also learned how to write continuity or script and produce background music produced in a professional program such as sound tract.  Students were also taught to record talent involving voice-over for use in productions, how to read TV rate cards, and how to negotiate advertising rates and spots as well as purchasing time for the Long form, i.e. thirty minute programming and demographic study. 

Social Security administration
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
6/2006 – 12/2006

Worked as a Teleservice representative for the Social Security Administration.
Duties included providing correct and precise information to beneficiaries regarding entitlement and other issues regarding retirement, disability and Supplemental Security Income and Medicare benefits. This required extensive research and analytical skills.

EDUCATION
Hillcrest High, Memphis, TN, 1974 -1977
Austin Pay State Univ., Clarksville, TN, 1977- 1979
Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, 1980-1982