Resume

Thomas Strodel is a creative, resourceful, and hands-on professional who specializes in puling stories out of real-life moments to deliver compelling and engaging entertainment to his audience. An expert in creating original television, leading and directing crews, talent, and diverse personalities, Tom brings his entrepreneurial know-how to every production situation, be it a local studio shoot, or a remote shoot overseas.

+ EXPERTISE

  • Executive Producing (showrunning), Producing, Directing for both field and studio-based shoots, locally and world-wide
  • Commercial spot creation, direction, and executive producing
  • Talent-based concept development
  • Original series and format creation and development
  • Pre and post production management, budgeting, scheduling, and production accounting
  • Scripts: writing and sweetening
  • Concept pre-visualization
  • Branded Entertainment: show sponsorship, trade-out solicitation and procurement, and more
  • Foreign filming, production troubleshooting, and problem solving
  • Personnel and crew management and staffing
  • Crew, talent, and network contract negotiations
  • Equipment planning and procurement
  • Permits, Carnets, and location scouting
  • Insurance negotiation and procurement locally and internationally
  • Music licenses and supervision of original music development
  • Show graphics, title sequences and art direction
  • Extensive experience in multimedia (integrated web marketing and programming, interactive, interface, and instructional design, and more)
  • Being successful in chaotic situations

Click below to explore his experience. ............................................................................

+ TELEVISION

• Ghost Adventures: Best of Series (reality: paranormal)
My Tupelo for: The Travel Channel
Supervising Producer/Showrunner
(12 episodes)

• How'd They Do That - (web series)
Car and Driver’s YouTube Channel
Showrunner
(4 episodes)

Bailin’ Out – (reality: docudrama)
Executive Producer (Showrunner), Director
(Pilot)

The Family – (reality: docudrama)
Executive Producer (Showrunner), Director
(Pilot)

Flying Cowboys – (reality: docudrama)
Executive Producer (Showrunner), Director
(Pilot)

Love is Blind – (reality: docusoap)
Executive Producer (Showrunner), Director
(Pilot)

What They Ate – (reality: food)
Executive Producer (Showrunner),  Director
(Pilot)

The Katie Brown Workshop – (lifestyle series)
PBS
Executive Producer (Showrunner), Director, Season 3, 4, and 6 (59 episodes)

Any Given Latitude - (hosted travel series)
The Fine Living Network
Creator, Executive Producer (Showrunner), Director (13 episodes)
Award: Golden Pen

Destination - (travel series)
InDemand
Creator, Executive Producer (Showrunner), Director (2 episodes)
           
On a Single Breath - (documentary)
Rush HD and National Geographic Channel
Creator, Producer, Showrunner, Director

FreeFlight- (documentary)
Rush HD and National Geographic Channel
Creator, Producer, Showrunner, Director

After School  - (variety series)
PBS
Associate Director (26 episodes)

Around Town – (restaurant series)
Metro Channels/Cablevision
Supervising Producer/Field Producer (13 episodes)

New Joke City - (comedy series)
Metro TV
Producer, Editor (10 episodes)

Dateline NBC - (news series)
NBC TV
Production Support

One Life to Live - (daytime series)
ABC TV
Production Support

America’s Next Sports Superstar (reality: docudrama)
Production Support

TV Diners and Hot off the Grill with Bobby Flay - (cooking series)
Food Network
Field Producer, Production Support

History Showcase - (history series)
The History Channel
Production Support

Riversense - (documentary)
TV Geis
Associate Producer

New York Stories (documentary)
1st AD

The Magic Pool - (children)
Air Sea Land Productions
1st AD

+ COMMERCIALS

• The Real Estate Book - "Good Times"
Agency: Milk
Director, Executive Producer
Award: Telly Award, 2011

• The Real Estate Book - "Pool Home"
Agency: Milk
Director, Executive Producer

• Team Danbury Audi - "Horsepower Meets Manpower"
Agency: Milk
Director, Executive Producer.
Awards: Davey Award. 2010

• Humphreys - "Drool"
Agency: Milk
Director, Executive Producer

• Audi - "Trust"
Agency: Milk
Director, Executive Producer
Awards: Telly Award, 2010; Davey Award. 2010

• Audi - "Evolution
Agency: Milk
Director, Executive Producer

• Audi - "How do you know?"
Agency: Milk
Executive Producer

• Audi - "The Hunt"
Agency: Milk
Executive Producer

• Humphreys - "Teething Relief"
Agency: Milk
Executive Producer

• VW - "Little/Small"
Agency: Milk
Executive Producer

• VW - "Oxymoron"
Agency: Milk
Director, Executive Producer

• VW - "Sense.com"
Agency: Milk
Executive Producer

• “Kaboom” with Billy Mays
Agency: Soft Productions
Producer

Watermelon Council
Director, Executive Producer

+ FEATURE FILMS AND SHORTS

• Goodbye Love (feature)
Production Support

• More Abandon (feature)
Production Support

April Showers (feature)
Production Manager

Six Tulips (35mm - black and white short)
Producer

+ MUSIC VIDEOS

• Chrisette Michele - "Love is You"
Island Def Jam
Executive Producer (Showrunner)

• Jigsaw Soul - "Cockroach Hotel"
Executive Producer (Showrunner)

Underground NYC
Atmospherex
Camera, Production Support

+ CORPORATE AND INDUSTRIAL

North American Power: Broker Presentation Video
Director, Producer

Yamuna: FootWakers Promotional and Instructional Video
YZ Studio
Director, Producer

David Bach: Press Kit Promotional DVD
Finish Rich
Producer

Fossil Halls intro videos (27)
The American Museum of Natural History
Producer (for video component)

Climate Change (museum exhibit)
The American Museum of Natural History
Producer (for video component)

• Underwater Video Basics (Instructional DVD)
24fps Productions, Inc.
Creator, Writer, Producer, Director

•FootWakers (Instructional DVD)
24fps Productions, Inc.
Writer, Producer, Director

The Making of a Commercial (short)
Canon U.S.A.
Creative Director, Writer, Editor

• probono.net (legal training videos)
probono.net
Editing, Post Production Support

La Micoque, Hall of Human Evolution (museum exhibit)
The American Museum of Natural History
Producer (for video compnent)

Vietnam -  Journeys of the Body, Mind, and Spirit (museum exhibit)
The American Museum of Natural History
Editor

Pearls Exhibition (museum exhibit)
The American Museum of Natural History
Producer, Director (for opening video motage)

Hudson Estuary: Hall of Ocean Life (museum exhibit)
The American Museum of Natural History
Producer

The Baby Book (award winning interactive CD-ROM)
Time Warner Interactive
Producer, Director
Award: IICS, Education

The Frank Gehry Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, NYC. (museum exhibit)
Frank Gehry Architect
Consultant

Underwater HD, Bahamas 24p Underwater HDTV Videos (promotional video)
Air Sea Land Productions
Writer, Producer, Director

The Power of One (promotional video)
Bankers Trust New York Corp.,  for Todd Street Productions
Production Manager, Writer, Editor

+ MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE

Director of Interactive Production
The Jack Morton Company
• Responsible for the overall development, integration, growth, sales, and management of a full service interactive department
•  Supported sales effort by identifying opportunities with existing accounts, attending and conducting capabilities presentations, and developing proposals.
• Managed staff and freelance resources responsible for several concurrent, cross office and cross discipline projects.
• Developed and executed sales and marketing materials to build the department’s brand internally and externally.
• Lead team in generating and delivering on over $2.4 million during tenure.
•  Clients included: Aetna US, British Airways, Chase Manhattan, CNBC, Deloitte & Touche, Lifetime TV, Lucent Technologies, NBC, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, KPMG, PaineWebber, Cushman & Wakefield, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Pharmicia & Upjohn, and many others.

Producer
Grey Direct
• Developed vision, strategy, and requirements for an interactive production division.
• Produced and consulted on a number of marketing-oriented web sites and CD-ROM’s. Accounts included: Chase Manhattan Bank, Seagram Company, LTD., Sprint, The Direct Marketing Association, and others.

Producer
Time Warner Interactive and Time Warner Cable - Broadband Applications
• Oversaw the production of web-based applications for the RoadRunner cable modem service, interactive television programs for The Full Service Network (FSN), and commercial CD-ROM titles.
• Hired and managed multiple production teams.
• Developed production budgets, marketing strategies, and cost/benefit assessments.
• Projects included: The Virtual Garden, The Baby Book–Online, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, Best Buys TV, and the award winning, The Baby Book CD-ROM.

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+ EDUCATION

Masters of Science
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse
University (May 1992)
• MS in Television Radio and Film

Bachelor of Science
State University of New York, ESF, Syracuse, New York (May 1990)
• BS in Environmental Studies/Educational Television Radio and Film Production

Associates Degree
Long Island University, Southampton Campus, New York (May 1987)
• AS in Biology/Marine Science

+ AWARDS

• Telly Award – “Good Times” The Real Estate Book, 2011

• Davey Award – “Horsepower Meets Manpower” Team Danbury Audi, 2010

• Davey Award – “Trust” Danbury Audi, 2010

• Telly Award – “Trust” Danbury Audi, 2010

• Golden Pen - Any Given Latitude, Fine Living
           
• IICS Award, Education, The Baby Book CD-ROM, Time Warner Interactive

+ PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• ReelScreen
• National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE)
• National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS)

+ ARTICLES

• Studio Monthly: “Are you Covered?” (February 2009)

• Studio Monthly: “Seeing Sound” (July, 2008)

• Studio Monthly: "HDV and Old School 3D" (August 2007)

• Studio Monthly: "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Altitudes" (July 2006)

•HighDef: "Fine Living Travel in High Definition" (March/April 2006)

•Broadcast Engineering: "HD at any given latitude" (April 2006)

•Create Magazine: "A Creative Idea’s Journey into Reality" (Fall 2005)

• DV Magazine: FreeFlight: "The Making of a Documentary" (June, 2004)

• DV Magazine: "Diving for HD Pearls" (Volume 10, Number 3, March 2002)

• FilmFestival Reporter - Author of various articles (Winter/Spring 2002)

• Videography: "Swimming with the HD Sharks" (Volume 26, No, 1, January, 2001)

• HighDef: "Into the Deep with High Definition" (Summer 2000, volume 2, Issue 4)

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If you'd like a screener of any of the projects listed here, please e-mail or call: 917-721-2718.